When Russia occupied Crimea and parts of the Donbas in early 2014, Ukraine was a neutral state. Despite this neutrality, Russia violated numerous international agreements, including the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, the Budapest Memorandum, and the 1997 Treaty on Friendship with Ukraine, which explicitly recognized Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Exploiting Ukraine’s non-membership in NATO, Moscow launched a war unseen in Europe since the Second World War. Russia’s focus on NATO is not just misleading—it serves as a strategic distraction from its revisionist aims: challenging the post-Cold War order and dismantling Ukraine as a sovereign nation. Central to the latter is Ukrainophobia, a deeply rooted ideological hostility towards Ukraine, embedded in Russian geopolitical chauvinism. This collected volume explores the socio-cultural foundations and political manifestations of contemporary anti-Ukrainian sentiment within the Russian state and society. The volume’s contributors are Boris Bondarev, Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Yuri Dzhibladze, Alexander Etkind, Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, Andrey Kalikh, Martin Kragh, Sergei Lebedev, Alexey Levinson, Anton Shekhovtsov, Andreas Umland, and Andrew Wilson.
Anton Shekhovtsov
Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov is Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Central European University, Associated Researcher at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna, and Director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity in Vienna. He holds a PhD from University College London (UCL) and is the author of New Radical Right-Wing Parties in European Democracies (ibidem 2011), Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir (Routledge 2017), and Russian Political Warfare (ibidem 2023). Shekhovtsov has also published numerous op-eds in international media including EUobserver, Die Zeit, Le Monde, Prospect, Dagens Nyheter, and El Mundo, as well as academic articles in, among others, Journal of Democracy, Russian Politics and Law, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Patterns of Prejudice, The Russian Review, and Osteuropa.
Andreas Umland
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
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Galia Ackerman
Dr. Galia Ackerman, a French-Russian historian, is vice-president and editorial director of Desk Russie in Paris.
Boris Bondarev
Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Yuri Dzhibladze
Alexander Etkind
Dr. Alexander Etkind is Professor of History at the European University Institute at Florence, and taught at King’s College Cambridge. He is author of Eros of the Impossible (Westview 1996), Internal Colonization (Polity 2011), Warped Mourning (Stanford UP 2013), Roads not Taken (Pittsburgh UP 2017), and Remembering Katyn (Polity 2012) as well as co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave 2013) and Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (Routledge 2017).
Andreas Heinemann-Grüder
Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bonn and Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies. He taught at the Free as well as Humboldt University of Berlin, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Cologne. He has given policy advice to Germany’s Chancellery, Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Parliament, as well as the European Parliament, OSCE, NATO, and EU. Heinemann-Grüder’s previous books include Sowjetische Politik im arabisch-israelischen Konflikt (Deutsches Orient-Institut 1991), Die Spezialisten (with Ulrich Albrecht and Arend Wellmann; Dietz 1992), Der heterogene Staat (BWV 2000), Federalism Doomed? (Berghahn 2002), Die sowjetische Atombombe (Westfälisches Dampfboot 2002), Föderalismus als Konfliktregelung (Budrich 2011), Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung (co-edited with Isabella Bauer; Budrich 2012), Lehren aus dem Ukrainekonflikt (co-edited with Claudia Crawford and Tim Peters; Budrich 2021), and Osteuropa zwischen Mauerfall und Ukrainekrieg (co-authored with Ulrich Schmid, Angelika Nussberger and Martin Aust; Suhrkamp 2022).
Andrey Kalikh
Martin Kragh
Martin Kragh is Deputy Director of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) and Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Kragh holds a PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics (2009) and is associate professor (docent) at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University.
Sergei Lebedev
Alexey Levinson
Andrew Wilson
Dr. Andrew Wilson is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at UCL SSEES. His publications include Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West (2014), Ukraine‘s Orange Revolution (2005), and The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2002).
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| Edited by | Anton Shekhovtsov |
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| Contributions by | Anton Shekhovtsov , Andreas Umland , Boris Bondarev , Dmitry Dubrovskiy , Yuri Dzhibladze , Alexander Etkind , Andreas Heinemann-Grüder , Andrey Kalikh , Martin Kragh , Sergei Lebedev , Alexey Levinson , Andrew Wilson |
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| Foreword by | Galia Ackerman |
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| Number of Pages | 230 |
| Type | Paperback |
| Format | 210,0 mm x 148,0 mm |
| Publication date | 31.07.2026 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-3-8382-2154-0 |
| Weight | 293 g |
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