The Ukraine Shelf Episode 1: Crimea with Elmaz Asan and Rory Finnin

The Ukraine Shelf's first episode hosts Elmaz Asan and Rory Finnin to discuss Crimea

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine began not in 2022, but in 2014, with the invasion and occupation of Crimea. This episode explores Crimea’s significance as a strategically important nexus between east and west, between Europe, Russia and the Middle East, and as an integral part of Ukraine historically, politically and culturally. The focus of our discussion is Rory Finnin’s book Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press, 2022).