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As the Trump administration reimagines the United States' posture in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, the scholarship of leading imperial Russia scholar and UCR Professor Georg Michels takes on renewed relevance. Michels, a Harvard-trained scholar in Early Modern Russian and Ukrainian History, is currently working on a new book project about...

The Ukraine brought war to Russia's doorstep with a recent cross-border attack into the Kursk region of Russia. As Russia has been making slow but steady progress inside Ukraine’s borders, we asked Russia-Ukraine expert Paul D’Anieri to assess Ukraine’s motivations for taking the war onto Russian soil, and whether this...

Images that circulated recently depict drones blowing up over Red Square in Moscow. As part of its response, a Russian official said, “decisions about such actions and such terrorist acts are made not in Kyiv, but in Washington,” leading many to ask what the Russian retaliation will look like. The...

Letters to the editor populate the pages of media outlets, speaking to America's and Americans' moral authority to act, or not to act, in Ukraine. You and I didn't cause this. Then why do we feel we should be doing something more - and what do we do with that...

The War in Ukraine For fast access to experts, email news@ucr.edu Paul D’Anieri, professor of political science D'Anieri asserts that the Ukrainian conflict is a product of Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite never having accepted Ukrainian independence in 1991. Putin was further angered by the U.S. invasion of Iraq...

The public dialogue about the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been dominated by 20th-century historians and political scientists, according to UC Riverside Department of History Professor Georg Michels. Michels, who specializes in early Russian, Ukrainian, and Hungarian history, acknowledges the relevance of 20th century history, including World War II analogies...

UCR experts discuss topics surrounding Russia's invasion in Ukraine