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Stories from Ukraine: Fighters
Born in the twilight of the Soviet Empire, this generation of Ukrainians has endured a lifetime of challenges. They navigated the economic turmoil of the 90s, confronted would-be dictators in mass protests and revolutions, and have been fighting Russian invaders since 2014. These experiences have forged them into resilient, innovative, and brave individuals. They became real fighters. In this book, children of the tumultuous Soviet 80s and chaotic Ukrainian 90s, now the backbone of Ukrainian society, share their stories of the war and beyond. A couple of university professors bring humanitarian aid to frontline communities. A lawyer left her job to care for hundreds of war-affected dogs unde...
Stories from Ukraine: Keepers
Born under the suffocating grip of the Soviet Empire, this generation of Ukrainians witnessed firsthand the cruelty and oppression of the Kremlin's rule. While some were always aware of the regime's true nature, others were lulled into a false sense of security by state propaganda. Yet, many maintained a hidden understanding of their Ukrainian identity and passed down vital stories to the younger generation, preserving the truth about their land, free from the distortions of Moscow's narrative. They are the keepers of Ukrainian heritage, even if they don't always realize it. In this book, the older generation of Ukrainians shares their remarkable stories. A veteran of a Soviet imperial war t...
Stories from Ukraine: Believers
Born in an independent Ukraine, a generation has emerged that has never known a different reality. Their homeland has been marred by the annexation of Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions by Russia, a constant reminder that the struggle for freedom is not over. Despite this, these young Ukrainians grew up to be passionate, considerate, unwavering, and kind. Their perspectives, shaped by their experiences, offer a unique vision of the future. Solomiia confronts a devastating choice made by her father. Mavka, an anonymous girl fighting for freedom on occupied territories, employs clever and agile tactics to advance Ukraine's cause. Twin sisters Maria and Sofia rebuilt their lives af...
The Ukrainian Night
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.
Dnipro
Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern Eurasia This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’ and ‘the heart of Ukraine’) is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.
Where Currents Meet
This study of cultural memory in post-Soviet society shows how the inhabitants in Ukraine?s east negotiate the historical legacy they have inherited. Zaharchenko approaches contemporary Ukrainian literature at the intersection of memory studies and border studies, and her analysis adds a new voice to an ongoing exploration of cultural and historical discourses in Ukraine. The scholarly journey through storylines explores the ways in which younger writers in Kharkiv (Kharkov in Russian), a diverse, dynamic, but under-studied border city in east Ukraine today, come to grips with a traumatized post-Soviet cultural landscape. Zaharchenko?s book examines the works of Serhiy Zhadan, Andre? Krasniashchikh, Yuri Tsaplin, Oleh Kotsarev and others, introducing them as a ?doubletake? generation who came of age during the Soviet Union?s collapse and as adults, revisit this experience in their novels. Filling the space between society and the state, local literary texts have turned into forms of historical memory and agents of political life. ÿ
Ruská agrese proti Ukrajině
Ruská agrese proti Ukrajině představuje patrně největší výzvu evropské bezpečnosti od roku 1945. Nejenže ztělesňuje útok na samotné základy systému mezinárodního práva, ale i s novou naléhavostí nastoluje otázku, kam až sahají ofenzivní ambice současného ruského režimu. Předkládaná monografie osvětluje širší pozadí poslední ruské agrese a podává analýzu vývoje na Ukrajině po roce 2014 v souvislosti s aktuálním ozbrojeným konfliktem. Rozebírá jeho hlavní příčiny a zdroje, přibližuje fungování a průběh ruské hybridní válečné kampaně a hodnotí dopady probíhající rusko-ukrajinské války na stávající mezinárodní uspořádání.
Ruská agrese proti Ukrajině
Ruská agrese proti Ukrajině představuje patrně největší výzvu evropské bezpečnosti od roku 1945. Nejenže ztělesňuje útok na samotné základy systému mezinárodního práva, ale i s novou naléhavostí nastoluje otázku, kam až sahají ofenzivní ambice současného ruského režimu. Předkládaná monografie osvětluje širší pozadí poslední ruské agrese a podává analýzu vývoje na Ukrajině po roce 2014 v souvislosti s aktuálním ozbrojeným konfliktem. Rozebírá jeho hlavní příčiny a zdroje, přibližuje fungování a průběh ruské hybridní válečné kampaně a hodnotí dopady probíhající rusko-ukrajinské války na stávající mezinárodní uspořádání.
Miscommunicating Social Change
Miscommunicating Social Change analyzes the discourses of three social movements and the alternative media associated with them, revealing that the Enlightenment narrative, though widely critiqued in academia, remains the dominant way of conceptualizing social change in the name of democratization in the post-Soviet terrain. The main argument of this book is that the “progressive” imaginary, which envisages progress in the unidirectional terms of catching up with the “more advanced” Western condition, is inherently anti-democratic and deeply antagonistic. Instead of fostering an inclusive democratic process in which all strata of populations holding different views are involved, it d...
Kiew – Revolution 3.0
Nach der Revolution „auf dem Granit“ von 1990 und der Or-angenen Revolution von 2004 hat von November 2013 bis Februar 2014 ein weiterer ukrainischer Volksaufstand, der Euromaidan, das Janukowitsch-Regime weggespült. Die vielschichtigen Probleme der Ukraine sind damit allerdings nicht gelöst. Der revolutionären Euphorie folgte bereits in den ersten Wochen nach der Regierungsneubildung tiefe Ernüchterung. Die russische Annexion der Schwarzmeerhalbinsel Krim im März 2014 hat der dritten postsowjetischen ukrainischen Revolution eine gänzlich neue Dimension verliehen und wird eine erfolgreichen Transition des Landes noch komplizierter machen. Der Weg in Richtung Demokratie und Marktwir...
