Why did Vladimir Putin launch his catastrophic invasion of Ukraine in February 2022? And how much are failures of Western policy towards Russia since the end of Communism to blame for the bloodiest war on European soil since 1945? These are the questions at the heart of 'Who Lost Russia?', Peter Conradi's account of the series of mistakes and misunderstandings on both sides of the Iron Curtain since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.