A few months ago, the journalist recognized as one of the greatest experts on Eastern Europe, Anne Applebaum, winner of the El Mundo International Journalism Award, warned: “The bad guys are winning.”
According to Applebaum, author of the essential red faminerecommended in this selection, Putin has decided to nip in the bud the genuine right of Ukraine to become a full democracy without Russian interference.
With this war, the Russian president wants to show the Western world that his threats are real and his criminal imperialist pursuit is serious. These are the essential books to understand the invasion of ukraine by the Russians.
The faceless man
For sale on Amazon (11.39)
Russian journalist Masha Gessen recounts the surprising rise of a mediocre Soviet KGB agent to the presidency of Russia. The best biography on Vladimir Putin. It was a National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2017.
A history of Rus
For sale on Amazon (15,20)
Great chronicle by the journalist Argemino Barro, who analyzes the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, providing historical background, from the affinity of its origin to the Cossack rebellions or the massacre by hunger of almost four million Ukrainians caused by Stalin.
Ukrainian and Russian notebooks
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Excellent comic from the Salamandra publishing house, where the journalist and illustrator Igort tells true stories of survivors of the Soviet regime, while relating them to murky episodes in today’s Russia, such as the murder of the Russian journalist and activist Anna Politkvskaya in 2006.
