**'A masterpiece' Peter Pomerantsev'Powerful' Serhii Plokhy'Fascinating' Daily Telegraph**A history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries.Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet this attack was in fact the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign. In Intent to Destroy, leading scholar of genocide and Eastern Europe Eugene Finkel uncovers the deep ro...

'A masterpiece' Peter Pomerantsev'Powerful' Serhii Plokhy'Fascinating' Daily TelegraphA history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries.Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet this attack was in fact the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign. In Intent to Destroy, leading scholar of genocide and Ea...

Food has been crucial to the functioning and survival of governments and regimes since the emergence of early states. Yet, only in a few countries is the connection between food and politics as pronounced as in Russia. Since the 1917 Revolution, virtually every significant development in Russian and Soviet history has been either directly driven by or closely associated with the question of food and access to it. In fact, food shortages played a critical role in the collapse of both the Ru...