Three Books: Professor Mark Beissinger on Understanding the Conflict in Ukraine

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headshot of Prof. Mark Beissinger Mark R. Beissinger, the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton. Photo by Princeton University Office of Communications

Politics professor Mark R. Beissinger has long specialized in the topics now under international scrutiny as Russia invades Ukraine, with his scholarship covering revolutions and nationalism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states. He has written five books on these subjects, including Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, published in 2014. His latest book, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion, is due out in April. 

Bookcover jacket for Gates of Europe which displays a grim battelfield

PAW asked Beissinger to recommend three books to help readers understand the present conflict, and he suggested these.

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