Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine - Release Date January 13, 2026

Intent to Destroy by Eugene Finkel is a powerful and deeply researched history of Russia’s long-standing violence against Ukraine, revealing how the 2022 invasion is only the latest chapter in a centuries-old campaign to dominate and erase Ukrainian identity. Tracing the roots of this aggression back to the rise of Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, Finkel exposes how the Kremlin has repeatedly used genocidal tactics—killings, deportations, starvation, and cultural destruction—against Ukrainians and other minorities such as Tatars, Jews, and Poles. Drawing on two decades of scholarship and his personal connection to this living history, Finkel places today’s war within its broader historical context, offering a searing account of Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II.