Bücher von David R. Marples

This collection of essays offers an analysis of the roots of the armed conflicts in the Donbas region of Ukraine, by exploring local society and traditions, interpreting recent events and assessing efforts to bring the war to and end. The book concludes with four key insights that could help to establish a durable peace in Donbas.

This volume highlights the problems of the environment and industry in Ukraine from 1985 to 1990. The main theme of the book is the close link between the damage to nature and the growth of political activism and patriotism in Ukraine.

Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, this book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives on several events discussed in the narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005.

Based on the lastest research, David Marples gives an account of the Russian Revolution and the intense debates that surround it.

The collapse of the Soviet Union has widely been seen as the reult of the arms race and Cold War, and the failure of the Soviet side to keep pace with new technology. This is an accessible guide to the key events surrounding the disintegration of the USSR.

David Marples looks back at the Soviet century and examines the relationship between the Communist state and the Russian national idea. He concludes that ultimately, it was the ideal of the motherland that brought about the end of communism in Russia.