1st Edition

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims, Perpetrators, Justice, and the Question of Genocide

Edited By Diana Dumitru, A. Dirk Moses Copyright 2025
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines crucial facets of the Russian invasion: among them, the Russian sexual violence against occupied Ukrainians, their “collaboration” and “filtration,” legal prosecutions especially relating to kidnapped Ukrainian children, the portrayal of events in Bucha on Russian social media, and the lessons learned from the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland during the initial weeks of the... Read more

Introduction: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Diana Dumitru and A. Dirk Moses

 

1. Beyond the False Claim of Genocide: Preliminary Reflections on Ukraine's Prospects in Its Pursuit of Justice at the ICJ

Iryna Marchuk and Aloka Wanigasuriya

 

2. When the Head of State Makes Rape Jokes, His Troops Rape on the Ground: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine

Kateryna Busol

 

3. Forcibly Transferring Ukrainian Children to the Russian Federation: A Genocide?

Yulia Ioffe

 

4. Russia’s Genocidal War in Ukraine: Radicalization and Social Destruction

Martin Shaw

 

5. Beyond Putin’s Analogies: The Genocide Debate on Ukraine and the Balkan Analogy Worth Noting

Shpend Kursani

 

6. Ukraine, Russia, and Genocide of Minor Differences

Alexander Etkind

 

7. The Paradox of Genocide in Modern Russia: Evolving Narratives of the Siege of Leningrad During the “Great Patriotic Operation”

Noah Krasman

 

8. “We’ve Got to Kill Them”: Responses to Bucha on Russian Social Media Groups

Ian Garner

 

9. Filtration Camps, Past and Present, and Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Franziska Exeler

 

10. A Return to Antenora? Observations on Collaboration During the Russo-Ukrainian War

Jared McBride

 

11. Civil Crisis Management in Poland: The First Weeks of the Relief in Russian War on Ukraine

Olga Byrska

 

12. The Postcolonial Moment in Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Maria Mälksoo

 

13. Options for Prosecuting Russian Aggression Against Ukraine: A Critical Analysis

Kevin Jon Heller

 

14. The International Administration of Territory as an Interim Peace

A. Dirk Moses and Jessie Barton Hronešová

Biography

Diana Dumitru is Ion Rațiu Professor in Romanian Studies at Georgetown University, USA. Her research interests include the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, nationality policies and antisemitism in the USSR, and late Stalinism and postwar trials in the Soviet Union. Her second book is entitled The State, Antisemitism and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union (2016). She is an Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.

A. Dirk Moses is Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, CUNY, USA. He is the author of The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021) and is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.