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False Mirrors: The Weaponization of Social Media in Russia’s Operation to Annex Crimea
In his timely study, Andrii Demartino investigates the multitude of techniques how social media can be used to advance an aggressive foreign policy, as exemplified by the Russian Federation’s operation to annex Crimea in 2014. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Demartino traces the implementation of a series of Russian measures to create channels and organisations manipulating public opinion in the Ukrainian segment of the internet and on platforms such as Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, LiveJournal, and Twitter. Addressing the pertinent question of how much the operation to annex Crimea was either improvised or planned, he draws attention to Russia’s ad-hoc actions in the sphere of social media in 2014. Based on an in-depth analysis of the methods of Russia’s influence operations, the book proposes a number of counterstrategies to prevent such “active measures.” These propositions can serve to improve Ukraine’s national information policy as well as help to develop adequate security concepts of other states.
Vasyl Stus: Life in Creativity
How to explain the mystery of fame? Many once well-known people who spent much of their lives at the core of historic events have fallen into oblivion since. The brilliant East Ukrainian poet and Soviet-era dissident Vasyl Stus (1938-85) became renowned only after his reburial in late Soviet Ukraine in 1989. What are the reasons for the widespread admiration for him in post-Soviet Ukrainian society? The exceptional beauty of his poetry? His stunning courage and selflessness as a Soviet dissident? The irreconcilability of his position as a human being? Or/and Vasyl Stus’ ability to feel the pain of others as his own? Trying to answer these and other questions, the poet’s son and literary ...
Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art
This volume focuses on political and social expressions in contemporary art of Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. It explores the transformations that art in Ukraine and the Baltic states has undergone since their independence in 1991, discussing how the conflicts and challenges of the last three decades have impacted the reconsideration of identity and fostered resistance of culture against economic and political crises. It analyzes connections between the past and the present as seen by the artists in these countries and looks at their visions of the future. Contemporary Ukrainian art portrays various perspectives, addressing issues from controversial historical topics to the present...
A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister
This book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontline in 2017 while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Olesya Khromeychuk takes the point of view of a civilian and a woman, perspectives that tend to be neglected in war narratives, and focuses on the stories that play out far away from the warzone. Through a combination of personal memoir and essay, Khromeychuk attempts to help her readers understand the private experience of this still ongoing but almost forgotten war in the heart of Europe and the private experience of war as such. This book will resonate with anyone battling with grief and the shock of the sudden loss of a loved one.
The Holodomor and the Origins of the Soviet Man
Anastasia Lysyvets’s memoir Tell us about a happy life ... (Skazhy pro shchaslyve zhyttia ...), published in Kyiv in 2009 and now available for the first time in an English translation, is one of the most powerful testimonies of a victim of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. This mass starvation was organized by the Soviet regime and resulted in millions of deaths by hunger. The simple village teacher Lysyvets’s testimony, written during the 1970s and 1980s without hope of publication, depicts pain, death, and hunger as few others do. In his commentary, Vitalii Ogiienko explains how traumatic traces found their way into Lysyvets’s text. He proposes that the reader develops an alternative method of reading that replaces the usual ways of imagining with a focus on the body and that detects mechanisms of transmission of the original Holodomor experience through generations.
Ukraine's Orange Revolution
A close-up account of the 2004 popular revolution in Ukraine, and what it means
Wie funktioniert Putins Propaganda?
An wen richtet sich Putins Propaganda, und wie funktioniert sie? Was ist ein "hybrider Krieg", und wie hängt er mit der "Russischen Welt" zusammen? Wer ist auf technischer Ebene für Agitation verantwortlich, und wie funktioniert Propagandajournalismus? Ist es möglich, dem Informationskrieg zu widerstehen, und welche Methoden können am besten der hybriden Kriegsführung des Kremls entgegengesetzt werden? In lockerer und verständlicher Form erzählt der Politologe Mykola Davydiuk von seinen Erfahrungen im medialen Krieg, gibt Beispiele für die Manipulation von Menschen und warnt davor, selbst eine Marionette im gefährlichen Theater der russischen hybriden Kriegsführung zu werden. Das Buch ist für alle nützlich, denen die aktuelle Situation in der Ukraine und das Informationsumfeld, in dem sich ihre Bürger befinden, nicht gleichgültig sind.
Heller Weg: Geschichte eines Konzentrationslagers im Donbass 2017-2019
2017 wird der ukrainische Journalist Stanislav Aseyev im okkupierten Donezk verhaftet und wegen "Extremismus" sowie "Spionage" zu 15 Jahren Haft verurteilt – unter anderem, weil er in seinen Reportagen aus dem Kriegsgebiet das Wort "Donezker Volksrepublik" in Anführungszeichen gesetzt hatte. Zweieinhalb Jahre verbringt er in Haft, den Großteil in der so genannten "Isolation", einem Donezker Foltergefängnis mit der Adresse Heller Weg 3. Die dortige ehemalige Fabrik wurde 2014 in ein Konzentrationslager verwandelt und steht seither unter Moskauer Kontrolle. Hinter dem Gefängniszaun gelten keine Gesetze, das Leben ist bestimmt von Demütigung, Angst und Folter. Um in der Hölle des Lagers...
