THE CLIMAX OF THE BEGINNING

The Primrose Path to the Ukrainian Conflict

A conflict is haunting the East Slavs, the Slavic world, Europe, and the people of European ancestry elsewhere in the world. It is the conflict in Ukraine. How the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, countries that are offshoots of Kievan Rus, took the engineered path that led to the largest military conflict in Europe since World War Two, is presented succinctly by this authoritative account.

The author takes the reader through the nature of the grievances, policies, and actions—covert and open—that led the Ukrainian people to the primrose path that culminated in a civil war and a war with Russia, inadvertently making them and the rest of the East Slavs (Belarusians, Russians, and Rusyns) pawns in a game of geopolitics they did not see coming a decade ago.

Complex, though it is, THE CLIMAX OF THE BEGINNING: The Primrose Path to the Ukrainian Conflict, makes this conflict easy to understand, and it creates the platform for its resolution, the reconciliation of the East Slavic people, and for peace and harmony to reign in that part of the Eurasian landmass.