Chronologie aller Bände (1 - 24)
Die Reihenfolge beginnt mit dem Buch "Understanding Ukraine". Wer alle Bücher der Reihe nach lesen möchte, sollte mit diesem Band von Mychailo Wynnyckyj beginnen. Der zweite Teil der Reihe "Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation" ist am 02.11.2023 erschienen. Mit insgesamt 24 Bänden wurde die Reihe über einen Zeitraum von ungefähr 5 Jahren fortgesetzt. Der neueste Band trägt den Titel "Die Zukunft, die wir uns wünschen".
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- Start der Reihe: 30.04.2019
- Neueste Folge: 14.10.2024
Diese Reihenfolge enthält 22 unterschiedliche Autoren.
- Autor: Beck, Marieluise
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- Veröffentlicht: 16.10.2023
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Understanding Ukraine
The 2013–2014 Euromaidan Revolution’s call for justice, dignity, and liberty brought Ukraine, which had ’disappeared ’ behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II, into the world’s public consciousness. Yet, the country was soon almost forgotten again. In early 2022, the rapid escalation of Putin’s war on Ukraine has put the country back into the spotlight. Without knowing the country’s past, one cannot understand its present.
This anthology tackles the complex history of terror and violence in Ukraine – from the millionfold starvation of the Holodomor to the changing occupation regimes, from the ’Shoah by Bullets’ to the Chornobyl disaster. Those ready to delve deeper into the checkered, painful history of the country will better understand Ukraine’s current quest for independence, freedom, and democracy.
The volume’s contributors are Serhii Plokhii, Timothy D. Snyder, Anna Veronika Wendland, Anne Applebaum, Eduard Klein, Gelinada Grinchenko, Gerhard Simon, Irina Scherbakowa, Jan Claas Behrends, Karel C. Berkhoff, Kateryna Mishchenko, Klaus Wolschner, Nikolai Klimeniouk, Nikolaus von Twickel, Oksana Grytsenko, Ottmar Trașcă, Rebecca Harms, Sebastian Christ, Sébastien Gobert, Viktoria Savchuk, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Wilfried Jilge, Christoph Brumme, and Yevhen Hlibovytsky.
This anthology tackles the complex history of terror and violence in Ukraine – from the millionfold starvation of the Holodomor to the changing occupation regimes, from the ’Shoah by Bullets’ to the Chornobyl disaster. Those ready to delve deeper into the checkered, painful history of the country will better understand Ukraine’s current quest for independence, freedom, and democracy.
The volume’s contributors are Serhii Plokhii, Timothy D. Snyder, Anna Veronika Wendland, Anne Applebaum, Eduard Klein, Gelinada Grinchenko, Gerhard Simon, Irina Scherbakowa, Jan Claas Behrends, Karel C. Berkhoff, Kateryna Mishchenko, Klaus Wolschner, Nikolai Klimeniouk, Nikolaus von Twickel, Oksana Grytsenko, Ottmar Trașcă, Rebecca Harms, Sebastian Christ, Sébastien Gobert, Viktoria Savchuk, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Wilfried Jilge, Christoph Brumme, and Yevhen Hlibovytsky.
- Autor: Davidzon, Vladislav
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- Veröffentlicht: 02.11.2023
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Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation
This is a selection of essays and dispatches from a veteran observer of the development of Ukrainian culture and politics over the course of a decade. The volume deals with the issue of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and its historical legacy in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine. It charts the events that took place in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution and focuses on the place of Ukrainian Jewry within a quickly developing Ukrainian political nation.
- Autor: Eperjesi, Ildikó / Kachura, Oleksandr
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- Veröffentlicht: 18.12.2023
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Shreds of War. Vol. 2
After their Shreds of War: Fates from the Donbas Frontline 2015–2019, Eperjesi and Kachura uncover in this second volume effects of the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia. Oleksandr managed to visit the peninsula not long after its occupation by Russian troops. While doing interviews with local people, he was threatened by the authorities yet managed to escape with his exclusive stories of teachers and students, pensioners, children and their parents, market vendors and businessmen, homeless people, health care employees and their patients, the so called “cotton wool people,” and Ukrainian patriots. Many of them told him about how hopeful they were in early 2014, and how disappointed they have become as their expectations were not met by the “Russian world.” This concerns the banking system of Crimea, propaganda and censorship of the Russian state, and failed tourist seasons.
People still living or somehow related to Crimea tell us about the dramatic days of the illegal annexation. They explain what led to the tragedy and what mistakes were made by the Ukrainian authorities. Ordinary people, soldiers, journalists, heroes and traitors, emigrants, Crimean Tatars, Russian soldiers, Cossacks and the members of the so called “Crimean Self-Defense” disclose how they contributed to the historic events on the peninsula. Finally, the famous Crimean film director Oleh Sentsov shares with us how he managed to survive his illegal imprisonment by Russia and what impact it has had on his life.
People still living or somehow related to Crimea tell us about the dramatic days of the illegal annexation. They explain what led to the tragedy and what mistakes were made by the Ukrainian authorities. Ordinary people, soldiers, journalists, heroes and traitors, emigrants, Crimean Tatars, Russian soldiers, Cossacks and the members of the so called “Crimean Self-Defense” disclose how they contributed to the historic events on the peninsula. Finally, the famous Crimean film director Oleh Sentsov shares with us how he managed to survive his illegal imprisonment by Russia and what impact it has had on his life.
- Autor: Petik, Iaroslav
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- Veröffentlicht: 03.06.2024
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Politics and Society in the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917–1921) and Contemporary Ukraine (2013–2022)
This monograph explores the recent political history of Ukraine from a novel diachronic and comparative point of view. A largely unknown period of history for non-Ukrainians, the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR), which emerged at the end of World War I, is today still a hot topic for Ukrainians. The years of 2013–2022 were an equally dramatic period with a number of unsolved problems and conflicts, while the large Russian invasion into Ukraine since February 2022 marks a new epoch, which is impossible to assess yet. The periods of 1917–1921 and 2013–2022 exhibit both, astonishing similarities and deep differences. The UPR period was one of the few times when the Ukrainian nation gained full political autonomy as a separate state. That is why the story of this book resonates with the thoughts and feelings of many citizens of Ukraine. It presents an insightful glance into different stages of recent Ukrainian history for a non-Ukrainian audience. Petik highlights why and how the UPR is not only important for academic history but also for the identity and self-perception of the Ukrainian nation.
- Autor: Davis, Julia
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- Veröffentlicht: 10.06.2024
- Genre: Politik
In Their Own Words
This collection of essays and articles, written between 2019 and 2024 for such outlets as The Daily Beast and The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), illuminates recent Russian international affairs through the lens of Moscow’s propaganda tactics. For more than two decades, the Kremlin’s agitators have been tasked to lay, in advance, the groundwork for various domestic and foreign actions by the regime of Vladimir Putin. Thus, Russian state-controlled media provides crucial clues for deciphering the—often sinister—goals that the government of Russia was and is planning to pursue abroad, from election interference to military invasions. The goal of the sum of these activities is the establishment of a new world order—with Russia at its helm. Before the large invasion of 24 February 2022, Russian state media portrayed the West as incapable of opposing Russian aggression. Putin’s propagandists cheered for war against Ukraine, predicting it would be quick and victorious. Misreading the ability of the West to unite and miscalculating Russia’s capabilities in confronting determined Ukrainians, Russia ended up in a quagmire of its own creation. In 2024, Putin’s decorated propagandists face the possibility of future scrutiny and potential prosecutions for their proactive incitement of genocide. They unravel, along with the Kremlin, having to tell multiple conflicting stories and condemn the same players they used to lionize. Backed into the corner, they resort to nuclear threats and demand even more blood from Ukraine, whose only crime is its desire for democracy and freedom.
- Autor: Magocsi, Paul Robert
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- Veröffentlicht: 15.07.2024
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Ukraina Redux
Die Ukraine ist zweifelsohne ein integraler Bestandteil Europas. Daher ist es wichtig, dass die Europäer wissen, was die Ukraine ist und wer die Ukrainer sind. Ukraina Redux gibt präzise Antworten auf diese Fragen.
Der leserfreundliche Text – einschließlich von sechs historischen Karten in Vollfarbe – stellt eine rasche Übersicht der Jahrhunderte währenden Entwicklung ukrainischer Staatlichkeit bereit sowie eine aufschlussreiche Analyse der Unterschiede zwischen ukrainischer und russischer ethnischer und bürgerlicher Identitäten.
- Autor: Magocsi, Paul Robert
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- Veröffentlicht: 15.07.2024
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L’Ucraina Ritrovata: Sullo Stato e l’Identità Nazionale
L’Ucraina è ovviamente una parte integrante dell’Europa.
Perciò, è necessario che gli europei sappiano cos’è l’Ucraina e chi sono gli Ucraini. Per la prima volta vengono fornite le risposte a queste domande in Ucraina Redux. Questo testo di facile lettura (con sei mappe storiche a colori) fornisce una spiegazione concisa e approfondita dell'evoluzione secolare dello stato ucraino ed una penetrante analisi delle distinzioni fra le identità etniche e civiche ucraine e russe.
- Autor: Martsenyuk, Tamara
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- Veröffentlicht: 07.10.2024
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Russia’s War in Ukraine 2022
When Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, academic life and other social activities in Ukraine changed drastically. Scholars who either stayed in their cities or were forced to evacuate gained first-hand participant observation experience of war. Their teaching and research have been interrupted, but they continued to reflect on social, political, and economic events in Ukraine. This book is a collection of personal reflections by scholars of different disciplines, offering a variety of perspectives on Russia’s war against Ukraine. We immerse in the personal experiences and stories of researchers who reflect on their academic and analytical backgrounds—sociology, political science, international relations, and literature. This unique collection offers not only fascinating and shocking insights from Ukrainian citizens but also the thoughts and reflections of scholars of several fields that help us better understand the situation in Ukrainian society during the war.
- Autor: PEN Ukraine
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- Veröffentlicht: 14.10.2024
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Die Zukunft, die wir uns wünschen
Der Titel des Buchs Die Zukunft, die wir uns wünschen entstand aus dem Thema der UN-Generalversammlung 2020. Dieses Thema als Vorlage für einen Sammelband ergab sich nicht zufällig. In der heutigen Welt, in der die Menschheit durch ökologische Krisen und Epidemien, Kriege und punktuelle Gewaltausbrüche, autoritäre Regime und Terrororganisationen bedroht ist, wird die Diskussion über eine gemeinsame Vision unserer Zukunft relevanter denn je – auch und gerade vor dem Hintergrund der russischen Aggression gegen die Ukraine.
Vor diesem Hintergrund geben die hier vorgelegten Essays ukrainischer Autorinnen und Autoren faszinierende Einblicke in ihr Denken, ihre Gefühle und Wünsche: Welche Szenarien sind für unsere unmittelbare und fernere Zukunft wünschenswert, welche sind unbedingt zu vermeiden? Wie können wir darauf zuarbeiten, und welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich daraus für uns sowie unser Handeln in der Gegenwart?
Die Autorinnen und Autoren sind ukrainische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller der Gegenwart sowie Geistwissenschaftlerinnen und Geisteswissenschaftler, die in der Ukraine und in anderen europäischen Ländern leben und arbeiten: Kateryna Botanova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Andrij Kurkow, Taras Lyuty, Tanja Maljartschuk, Jurko Prochasko, Taras Prochasko, Natalka Sniadanko und Serhij Zhadan.
- Autor: Beck, Marieluise
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- Veröffentlicht: 14.10.2024
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Deutsch-ukrainische Geschichten
Die Ukraine war für die deutsche Öffentlichkeit lange Zeit ein fernes Land, nahezu eine terra incognita. Sie wurde entweder durch die ›russische Brille‹ oder nur im Zusammenhang mit den deutschen Gräueltaten des Zweiten Weltkriegs betrachtet. Deutschland und die Ukraine blicken jedoch auf eine lange Geschichte des geistigen und kulturellen Austauschs, der Migration und der diplomatischen Beziehungen zurück.
Dieser Sammelband führt uns vor Augen, dass sich die beiden Länder historisch deutlich näher sind, als viele dachten, und lädt dazu ein, auf Basis der bislang kaum bekannten Seiten der deutsch-ukrainischen Beziehungen die Ukraine in neuer Perspektive zu sehen.
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- Autor: Wynnyckyj, Mychailo
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- Veröffentlicht: 30.04.2019
- Genre: Politik
Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War
In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to organize, to act collectively, to become a civil society. Most prominently, they established a new Ukrainian identity: territorial, inclusive, and present-focused with powerful mobilizing symbols. Driven by an urban “bourgeoisie” that rejected the hierarchies of industrial society in favor of a post-modern heterarchy, a previously passive post-Soviet country experienced a profound social revolution that generated new senses: “Dignity” and “fairness” became rallying cries for millions. Europe as the symbolic target of political aspiration gradually faded, but the impact (including on Europe) of Ukraine’s revolution remained. When Russia invaded—illegally annexing Crimea and then feeding continuous military conflict in the Donbas—, Ukrainians responded with a massive volunteer effort and touching patriotism. In the process, they transformed their country, the region, and indeed the world. This book provides a chronicle of Ukraine’s Maidan and Russia’s ongoing war, and puts forth an analysis of the Revolution of Dignity from the perspective of a participant observer.
- Band: 16
- Autor: Beck, Marieluise
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- Veröffentlicht: 04.10.2021
- Genre: Politik
Ukraine verstehen
Der Ruf des Maidan nach Recht und Freiheit rückte die Ukraine in das öffentliche Bewusstsein Deutschlands. Das Land, das in seiner Geschichte nur für einen Wimpernschlag seine nationale Eigenständigkeit erlebte, verschwand nach den Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs für Jahrzehnte hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang. Doch wer die Vergangenheit des Landes nicht kennt, kann seine Gegenwart nicht verstehen. Dieser Sammelband bündelt die komplexe Geschichte von Terror und Gewalt in der Ukraine, vom millionenfachen Hungertod des Holodomor über die wechselnde Besatzung, von der „Shoah durch Kugeln“ bis zu Tschernobyl. Wer sich dieser wechselvollen, schmerzhaften Geschichte des Landes stellt, wird das Streben der Ukraine nach Unabhängigkeit, Freiheit und Demokratie besser verstehen.
Das Zentrum Liberale Moderne (LibMod) ist eine unabhängige Denkwerkstatt, ein Debattenforum und ein Projektbüro. Sein Themenfeld reicht von internationalen Fragen bis zu gesellschaftspolitischen Herausforderungen. LibMod steht für die Verteidigung der liberalen Demokratie und begleitet osteuropäische Länder auf ihrem Weg der demokratischen Transformation.
Das Zentrum Liberale Moderne (LibMod) ist eine unabhängige Denkwerkstatt, ein Debattenforum und ein Projektbüro. Sein Themenfeld reicht von internationalen Fragen bis zu gesellschaftspolitischen Herausforderungen. LibMod steht für die Verteidigung der liberalen Demokratie und begleitet osteuropäische Länder auf ihrem Weg der demokratischen Transformation.
- Band: 19
- Autor: Yaremchuk, Olesya
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- Veröffentlicht: 15.10.2021
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Unsere Anderen
Dieses preisgekrönte Buch über vierzehn ethnische Minderheiten handelt von der Regionalgeschichte und den persönlichen Schicksalen der Tschechen und Slowaken, der meschetischen Türken, der Schweden, der Rumänen, der Ungarn, der Roma, der Juden, der „Liptaken“, der Gagausen, der Deutschen, der Wlachen, der Polen, der Krimtataren und der Armenier in der Ukraine. Ausgehend von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen, ethnographischer Forschung und Interviews, liefert Olesya Yaremchuk eine faszinierende Darstellung der Entstehung dieser Gruppen in der Ukraine und ihrer Entwicklung innerhalb der Landesgrenzen. Begleitet von lebensnahen Fotografien, die die literarischen Reportagen zum Leben erwecken, beschreibt Unsere Anderen die unzähligen freiwilligen und erzwungenen Migrationen, welche die Ukraine seit Jahrhunderten prägen.
Gleichzeitig bietet das Buch eine einfühlsame Schilderung der außergewöhnlichen kulturellen Vielfalt der Ukraine, die die sowjetische Dampfwalze der auferlegten sprachlichen, kulturellen und religiösen Vereinheitlichung überdauert hat und die es verdient, als Bestandteil der allgemeinen ukrainischen Identität stärker anerkannt zu werden.
Marta Barnych und Anton Semyzhenko haben den Band als beitragende Autoren bereichert.
Gleichzeitig bietet das Buch eine einfühlsame Schilderung der außergewöhnlichen kulturellen Vielfalt der Ukraine, die die sowjetische Dampfwalze der auferlegten sprachlichen, kulturellen und religiösen Vereinheitlichung überdauert hat und die es verdient, als Bestandteil der allgemeinen ukrainischen Identität stärker anerkannt zu werden.
Marta Barnych und Anton Semyzhenko haben den Band als beitragende Autoren bereichert.
- Band: 27
- Autor: Eperjesi, Ildikó
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- Veröffentlicht: 01.08.2022
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Shreds of War: Fates from the Donbas Frontline 2014-2019
In Eastern Ukraine, unfathomable human dramas have unfolded since 2014. Thousands died in the fighting. The homes of tens of thousands were destroyed. Many were captured and tortured, millions ousted from their homes. The lives of many were broken. Volunteers started to collect food, clothes and even weapons for the frontline. Charity organizations transferred donations to the Donets’ Basin (Donbas). Priests became chaplains for soldiers. Journalists and photographers flooded into the war-zone and sometimes became involved in the events.
A Hungarian and Ukrainian journalist, Eperjesi and Kachura had the opportunity to meet and talk to many of these characters. The book provides a tableau of the emblematic figures of the war in the Donbas. It not only presents tragedies, but also human moments and noble deeds. The two journalists show how the lives of ordinary people have changed as a result of the horrors of war. They also spoke to pro-Russian militiamen and even with a Russian military officer captured in Ukraine. Shreds of War is one of the few authentic books with on-the-spot coverage, interviews, and dramatic photos documenting the war in Eastern Ukraine.
A Hungarian and Ukrainian journalist, Eperjesi and Kachura had the opportunity to meet and talk to many of these characters. The book provides a tableau of the emblematic figures of the war in the Donbas. It not only presents tragedies, but also human moments and noble deeds. The two journalists show how the lives of ordinary people have changed as a result of the horrors of war. They also spoke to pro-Russian militiamen and even with a Russian military officer captured in Ukraine. Shreds of War is one of the few authentic books with on-the-spot coverage, interviews, and dramatic photos documenting the war in Eastern Ukraine.
- Band: 28
- Autor: Melnyk, Oleksandr
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- Veröffentlicht: 27.12.2022
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World War II as an Identity Project
This book explores the relationship between history, legitimacy, and violence in the building and breaking of nations and states on the territory of contemporary Ukraine during the Second World War and in its aftermath. At its center are various institutions of the Soviet state. Other states and rival political movements also enter the picture insofar as their acitivities influenced Soviet policies. Methodologically, the study shifts attention from a limited body of normative texts and their creators within the Soviet political and cultural elite to a wider array of practices, organizations, and players engaged in power struggles and production of knowledge about the past in different social domains. Specifically, it brings into focus groups not normally thought of as participants in the production of Soviet memory discourse, notably NKVD officers, Soviet archivists, Ukrainian nationalists, Nazi collaborators, and former partisans in the German-occupied territories.
The book not only demonstrates the complexity of nation-shaping processes, but also restores agency to some seemingly powerless actors.
The book not only demonstrates the complexity of nation-shaping processes, but also restores agency to some seemingly powerless actors.
- Band: 32
- Autor: Lukanov, Yuriy
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- Veröffentlicht: 04.09.2023
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The Press: How Russia destroyed Media Freedom in Crimea
This book tells us about how Russia fought against journalists and the freedom of speech during the occupation of Crimea and thereafter. Yuriy Lukanov, a journalist who covered these events, describes not only his own impressions, but present us also many interviews he conducted with journalists who worked in Crimea at that time.
The book shows that how Russia systematically fought against free press and free reporting—from simple restriction of access to information to physical beatings and criminal prosecution of journalist.
The volume is illustrated with photos by the author and his colleagues.
With a foreword by Taras Kuzio.
The book shows that how Russia systematically fought against free press and free reporting—from simple restriction of access to information to physical beatings and criminal prosecution of journalist.
The volume is illustrated with photos by the author and his colleagues.
With a foreword by Taras Kuzio.
- Band: 33
- Autor: Buskey, Megan
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- Ø Bewertung: 4.3
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- Veröffentlicht: 13.02.2023
- Genre: Politik
Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet
When Megan Buskey’s grandmother Anna dies in Cleveland in 2013, Megan is compelled in her grief to uncover and document her grandmother’s life as a native of Ukraine. A Ukrainian American, Buskey returns to her family’s homeland and enlists her relatives there to help her in her quest—and discovers much more than she expected. The result is an extraordinary journey that traces one woman’s story across Ukraine’s difficult twentieth century, from a Galician village emerging from serfdom, to the “bloodlands” of Eastern Europe during World War II, to the Siberian hinterlands where Anna spent almost two decades in exile before receiving the rare opportunity to emigrate from the Soviet Union in the 1960s. In the course of her research, Megan encounters essential and sometimes disturbing aspects of recent Ukrainian history, such as Nazi collaboration, the rise and persistence of Ukrainian nationalism, and the shattering impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Yet her wide-ranging inquiries keep leading her back to universal questions: What does family mean? How can you forge connections between generations that span different cultures, times, and places? And, perhaps most hauntingly, how can you best remember a complicated past that is at once foreign and personal?
"A painfully honest and carefully researched journey of a Ukrainian American into her family’s complicated and difficult past. Anchored in the catastrophe of the Second World War and the subsequent Stalinist repression of the Ukrainian peasantry, the story flows, unexpectedly to the author herself, into the unfolding drama of the current Russian invasion. Thoughtful and beautifully written."
—Jan Gross, Princeton University, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
"This book is not only important, but captivating and instructive." —John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta
"Megan Buskey’s blend of tireless investigation with thoughtful analysis and careful prose make this book an exemplar of the best traditions in historical writing."
—Wil S. Hylton, author of Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
"A painfully honest and carefully researched journey of a Ukrainian American into her family’s complicated and difficult past. Anchored in the catastrophe of the Second World War and the subsequent Stalinist repression of the Ukrainian peasantry, the story flows, unexpectedly to the author herself, into the unfolding drama of the current Russian invasion. Thoughtful and beautifully written."
—Jan Gross, Princeton University, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
"This book is not only important, but captivating and instructive." —John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta
"Megan Buskey’s blend of tireless investigation with thoughtful analysis and careful prose make this book an exemplar of the best traditions in historical writing."
—Wil S. Hylton, author of Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
- Band: 37
- Autor: Kuzio, Taras
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- Veröffentlicht: 23.01.2023
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Fascism and Genocide: Russia’s War Against Ukrainians
This book details how Russia’s February 2022 open invasion of Ukraine has led to the biggest military conflagration and refugee crisis in Europe since World War II—a development with global ramifications. Co-written by a leading Western political expert, with three decades of research on contemporary Ukraine, and a prolific British journalist, the book explains why Russian President Vladimir Putin has been long obsessed with Ukraine and how his reliance on dated nationalist myths as well as anti-Western xenophobia led him to miscalculate Ukrainian and Western reactions to his brazen aggression against a sovereign country and founding member of the United Nations since 1945. Taras Kuzio and Stefan Jajecznyk-Kelman analyze how Putin’s blunders have led to the collapse of Russia’s Eurasian sphere of influence, to the growth of China’s presence in Russia’s backyard in Central Asia, and to conditions for the toppling of Putin’s regime.
The book focuses on:
- the roots of Putin’s obsession with Ukraine and the genocidal policies his army is pursuing through war crimes, deportations of millions of Ukrainians as well as destruction of property and infrastructure,
- why the supposed ‘second biggest army in the world’ is being defeated by Ukraine, a country Russian nationalists argue is fictitious, and by a Ukrainian people they claim does not exist,
- how Ukraine is fighting a people’s war with a nation-wide volunteer movement, civil society, and international supporters who are backing the Ukrainian army through fund raising, purchasing of supplies and military equipment, such as drones, and through an ‘IT Army’ fighting Russia’s invasion in cyber space and the hacking of Russian media,
- how the invasion is having profound negative implications for Russian-Ukrainian relations and why in breaking from Moscow, Ukraine is again the key actor—as it was in 1991—in the disintegration of the Soviet and Russian empires, and
- how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to global crises in economic growth, trade, and finances, as well as to changing geopolitical alliances, with the decline of Russia creating a vacuum that allows for the rise of China.
The book focuses on:
- the roots of Putin’s obsession with Ukraine and the genocidal policies his army is pursuing through war crimes, deportations of millions of Ukrainians as well as destruction of property and infrastructure,
- why the supposed ‘second biggest army in the world’ is being defeated by Ukraine, a country Russian nationalists argue is fictitious, and by a Ukrainian people they claim does not exist,
- how Ukraine is fighting a people’s war with a nation-wide volunteer movement, civil society, and international supporters who are backing the Ukrainian army through fund raising, purchasing of supplies and military equipment, such as drones, and through an ‘IT Army’ fighting Russia’s invasion in cyber space and the hacking of Russian media,
- how the invasion is having profound negative implications for Russian-Ukrainian relations and why in breaking from Moscow, Ukraine is again the key actor—as it was in 1991—in the disintegration of the Soviet and Russian empires, and
- how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to global crises in economic growth, trade, and finances, as well as to changing geopolitical alliances, with the decline of Russia creating a vacuum that allows for the rise of China.
- Band: 38
- Autor: Nychyk, Alina
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- Veröffentlicht: 06.11.2023
- Genre: Politik
Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU
This book investigates the making of Ukraine’s foreign policy towards the European Union and Russia between February 2014 and February 2015. To contextualize the events of the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian War, Nychyk lays out the history of the EU-Ukraine-Russia triangle since 1991 and draws lessons relevant for the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The book is based on her doctoral research and rests on a game-theory-inspired approach to foreign policy analysis. It relies on 38 elite interviews, official documents, and media reports.
Nychyk uncovers various mutual misperceptions in EU-Ukraine-Russia relations. Looking at Ukraine’s ‘side of the story’, her analysis shows how Russian assertiveness and the EU’s passivity, but also Ukrainian leaders’ limited crisis management experience and erroneous policy decisions contributed to worse outcomes for Ukraine. The latter included poor analysis of foreign interlocutors, trust in their good intentions, and corruption. After 2015, a persistence—although with certain changes—of some of these pathologies left Ukraine in a weaker position in the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Nychyk uncovers various mutual misperceptions in EU-Ukraine-Russia relations. Looking at Ukraine’s ‘side of the story’, her analysis shows how Russian assertiveness and the EU’s passivity, but also Ukrainian leaders’ limited crisis management experience and erroneous policy decisions contributed to worse outcomes for Ukraine. The latter included poor analysis of foreign interlocutors, trust in their good intentions, and corruption. After 2015, a persistence—although with certain changes—of some of these pathologies left Ukraine in a weaker position in the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
- Band: 39
- Autor: Dovzhyk, Sasha
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- Veröffentlicht: 02.10.2023
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Ukraine Lab
Ukraine has often been called a laboratory for global challenges in the spheres of environment, information, and security. The site of the worst nuclear catastrophe in history, the primary target of the Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns as well as the country to spark the collapse of the Soviet Union and to stand up to its neo-imperialist successor: Ukraine has been the first to face and, at times, to set in motion processes with worldwide consequences. After Russia’s full-scale invasion compromised the global system of security, the value of Ukrainian knowledge and experience can no longer be dismissed. The urgency to learn with and from Ukraine is now existential for the rest of the world.
This unique collection presents essays, in English and Ukrainian translations, by emerging authors from Ukraine and the UK who employ cross-cultural dialog and the art of storytelling to open up Ukrainian perspectives on the challenges facing humanity worldwide. The volume’s contributors are Olesya Khromeychuk, Sofia Cheliak, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Olena Kozar, Kris Michalowicz, Phoebe Page, Jonathon Turnbull, and Mstyslav Chernov.
“If you want to understand the impact of Russiaʼs invasion of Ukraine from the inside, read this vivid, moving, urgent collection of essays.”
—Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian
“Moving, heartfelt and often deeply personal, these essays off er a compelling portrait of life in Ukraine under the shadow of war. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the reality of Russiaʼs invasion and its terrible human consequences.”
—Luke Harding, The Guardian
The editor:
Sasha Dovzhyk completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2022–2023, she was Associate Lecturer in Ukrainian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East-European Studies, UCL. Since 2021, she is Special Projects Curator at the Ukrainian Institute in London. Her previous books include Decadent Writings of Aubrey Beardsley (ed. with Simon Wilson, MHRA 2022) and Ukrainian Cassandra: New Translations of Works by Lesia Ukrainka (Live Canon 2023). Her articles have been published in, among other outlets, Modernist Cultures, British Art Studies, the Oxford Handbook of Decadence, CNN, The Guardian, New Lines Mag, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Ecologist.
The foreword author:
Dr Rory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
This unique collection presents essays, in English and Ukrainian translations, by emerging authors from Ukraine and the UK who employ cross-cultural dialog and the art of storytelling to open up Ukrainian perspectives on the challenges facing humanity worldwide. The volume’s contributors are Olesya Khromeychuk, Sofia Cheliak, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Olena Kozar, Kris Michalowicz, Phoebe Page, Jonathon Turnbull, and Mstyslav Chernov.
“If you want to understand the impact of Russiaʼs invasion of Ukraine from the inside, read this vivid, moving, urgent collection of essays.”
—Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian
“Moving, heartfelt and often deeply personal, these essays off er a compelling portrait of life in Ukraine under the shadow of war. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the reality of Russiaʼs invasion and its terrible human consequences.”
—Luke Harding, The Guardian
The editor:
Sasha Dovzhyk completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2022–2023, she was Associate Lecturer in Ukrainian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East-European Studies, UCL. Since 2021, she is Special Projects Curator at the Ukrainian Institute in London. Her previous books include Decadent Writings of Aubrey Beardsley (ed. with Simon Wilson, MHRA 2022) and Ukrainian Cassandra: New Translations of Works by Lesia Ukrainka (Live Canon 2023). Her articles have been published in, among other outlets, Modernist Cultures, British Art Studies, the Oxford Handbook of Decadence, CNN, The Guardian, New Lines Mag, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Ecologist.
The foreword author:
Dr Rory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
- Band: 40
- Autor: Kvit, Serhiy
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- Veröffentlicht: 04.09.2023
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Media, History, and Education - Three Ways to Ukrainian Independence
This book comprises a collection of essays that shed light on some of the key humanitarian issues that have emerged in independent Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union. With a strong empirical focus, the chapters explore pivotal events such as the 1990 Student Revolution on Granite (referring to the stone of Kyiv’s Independence Square), the 2004 Orange Revolution (named after Viktor Yushchenko’s campaign color), and the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity (also known as »Euromaidan«). The book examines the evolution of a robust civil society, the emergence of a Ukrainian political nation, and the ultimate achievement of national unity among Ukrainians.
These developments are not only analyzed in the context of Ukraineʼs recent state-building successes but are also viewed as a continuation of the countryʼs longstanding national liberation struggle for independence from Russia. Of particular note, the book highlights the ongoing re-evaluation of established stereotypes surrounding the roots of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which the author, Kvit, presents as a clash of civilizational values.
These thought-provoking essays by one of Ukraineʼs most prominent political intellectuals will prove valuable not only to those with an interest in Ukraine but also to scholars across a range of disciplines, including mass communications, political science, philosophical hermeneutics, history, and higher education.
These developments are not only analyzed in the context of Ukraineʼs recent state-building successes but are also viewed as a continuation of the countryʼs longstanding national liberation struggle for independence from Russia. Of particular note, the book highlights the ongoing re-evaluation of established stereotypes surrounding the roots of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which the author, Kvit, presents as a clash of civilizational values.
These thought-provoking essays by one of Ukraineʼs most prominent political intellectuals will prove valuable not only to those with an interest in Ukraine but also to scholars across a range of disciplines, including mass communications, political science, philosophical hermeneutics, history, and higher education.
- Band: 45
- Autor: Pylypchuk, Kateryna
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- Veröffentlicht: 09.10.2023
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The War that Changed Us
At 5:08 a.m. on February 24, 2022, Kateryna woke up in Kyiv to the sound of bombing. This marked the end of her world, work plans and ideas, travels … All that remained was to save herself and her children.
The inevitable changes, which shook something deep and significant within her, became an impetus to write about what had caused her and all Ukrainians so much pain. She wrote, one after another, novellas, poems, and essays that reflect the story of the war during the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
This book contains words woven with emotions and experiences of ordinary people who have become heroes. The main goal of this collection is to help people all over the world better understand what each Ukrainian felt and how this war changed us all.
The inevitable changes, which shook something deep and significant within her, became an impetus to write about what had caused her and all Ukrainians so much pain. She wrote, one after another, novellas, poems, and essays that reflect the story of the war during the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
This book contains words woven with emotions and experiences of ordinary people who have become heroes. The main goal of this collection is to help people all over the world better understand what each Ukrainian felt and how this war changed us all.
- Band: 46
- Autor: Tkachenko, Kyrylo
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- Veröffentlicht: 20.11.2023
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Rechte Tür Links
Wie kommt es, dass viele Linke besonders anfällig für russische Narrative über den russisch-ukrainischen Krieg sind? Und warum überschneiden sich die linken Interpretationen so stark mit denjenigen der Rechten, sobald es um die Ukraine geht? Kommt dabei etwas zum Ausdruck, das man als linkes Ressentiment bezeichnen könnte –Trauer über eine als verloren empfundene Vergangenheit, gemischt mit eigener Unsicherheit darüber, wie das politische System aussehen soll, welches nach linker Sicht repräsentative Demokratien ablösen sollte?
Das vorliegende Buch stellt den wohl umfassendsten Versuch dar, die Reaktionen auf die sogenannte Ukraine-Krise innerhalb der deutschen Linken zu erklären und historisch zu kontextualisieren – einschließlich der linken geopolitischen Wende, deren vielleicht erstaunlichste Eigenschaft wiederum die Übereinstimmung mit den Positionen der extremen Rechten ist.
Nebenbei wird das bisherige Bild der Ukraine in der deutschen Gesellschaft herausgearbeitet und einer kritischen Analyse unterzogen.
Das vorliegende Buch stellt den wohl umfassendsten Versuch dar, die Reaktionen auf die sogenannte Ukraine-Krise innerhalb der deutschen Linken zu erklären und historisch zu kontextualisieren – einschließlich der linken geopolitischen Wende, deren vielleicht erstaunlichste Eigenschaft wiederum die Übereinstimmung mit den Positionen der extremen Rechten ist.
Nebenbei wird das bisherige Bild der Ukraine in der deutschen Gesellschaft herausgearbeitet und einer kritischen Analyse unterzogen.
- Band: 51
- Autor: Kipiani, Vakhtang
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- Veröffentlicht: 22.01.2024
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Ukrainische Dissidenten unter der Sowjetmacht
Vakhtang Kipianis Interviews mit ukrainischen Dissidenten legen Zeugnis ab über die Taten derer, die die Grundfesten des Gefängnisses, das sich Sowjetunion nannte, untergruben. Kipiani führte Gespräche mit Dissidenten, die sich selbst nicht als Helden sahen, es aber sehr wohl waren – und keine Konfrontation mit den Sowjetherrschern fürchteten.
Die Menschen, die das System herausforderten, waren sehr unterschiedlich – in Bezug auf Alter, Überzeugungen, Geschlecht und Nationalität.
Zu Kipianis Gesprächspartner zählen neben anderen: Balys Gajauskas, der 37 Jahre in Gefangenschaft verbrachte und später Chef des Sicherheitsdienstes im unabhängigen Litauen wurde; Kalju Mätik, der einst in den Reihen der Demokratischen Bewegung Estlands im Untergrund antisowjetischer Aktivitäten bezichtigt wurde; Mustafa Dschemiljew, der für die Rechte der Krimtataren kämpfte; Lewko Lukjanenko, einer der Organisatoren der Ukrainischen Arbeiter- und Bauernunion und Gründungsmitglied der Ukrainischen Helsinki-Union; Nadija Switlytschyna, Mitglied der Sechzigerjahre-Bewegung, Menschenrechtsaktivistin und Journalistin.
Mehr als zwanzig Dissidenten werfen in diesen Gesprächen Fragen auf, die auch heute noch aktuell sind. Wir müssen die Wahrheit hören über den Sowjetsozialismus und uns daran erinnern, dass Freiheit ein Impfstoff ist, dessen Wirksamkeit mit der Zeit nicht nachlässt.
Die Menschen, die das System herausforderten, waren sehr unterschiedlich – in Bezug auf Alter, Überzeugungen, Geschlecht und Nationalität.
Zu Kipianis Gesprächspartner zählen neben anderen: Balys Gajauskas, der 37 Jahre in Gefangenschaft verbrachte und später Chef des Sicherheitsdienstes im unabhängigen Litauen wurde; Kalju Mätik, der einst in den Reihen der Demokratischen Bewegung Estlands im Untergrund antisowjetischer Aktivitäten bezichtigt wurde; Mustafa Dschemiljew, der für die Rechte der Krimtataren kämpfte; Lewko Lukjanenko, einer der Organisatoren der Ukrainischen Arbeiter- und Bauernunion und Gründungsmitglied der Ukrainischen Helsinki-Union; Nadija Switlytschyna, Mitglied der Sechzigerjahre-Bewegung, Menschenrechtsaktivistin und Journalistin.
Mehr als zwanzig Dissidenten werfen in diesen Gesprächen Fragen auf, die auch heute noch aktuell sind. Wir müssen die Wahrheit hören über den Sowjetsozialismus und uns daran erinnern, dass Freiheit ein Impfstoff ist, dessen Wirksamkeit mit der Zeit nicht nachlässt.