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1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Will Ukraine Exist Because of Putin?

The idea that Putin created Ukraine by invading it is ludicrous, right? You can invade lots of places, that doesn't mean that they start to exist as nations. The fact that Ukrainians were able to resist the Russian invasion suggests that the nation had already consolidated in some way. If you're a writer in a democracy, you're very attracted to authoritarianism and there's a kind of seductive lure of the distant authoritarian.

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