conversation, a big part of it was really a conversation about Russian and Ukrainian identity and the sense of Russian nationhood and how that has evolved both up until the end of the Cold War and then subsequently with the fall of the Soviet Union. And the other part of the book is really a look forward into what the consequences of this war will be for the future and how the global order is evolving. Would you say that that's pretty much an accurate description? Yes, I would say it is an accurate description and the origins of the war, the issues of identity. This is the focus of the first chapters, few chapters, and then the future is the focus of the concluding two chapters. What is also in between, I try to look at the actual developments on the front lines in the course of the last year. So the book was written between March of 2022 and February of 2023. So what certainly the reader will get out of that book will be not just the origins and consequences of the war, but there will (5/40)
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