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First edition. |
| Description |
xxviii, 257 pages : illustrations, photographs, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
l -- Weaponising History -- Thumbelina in Donetsk -- Our History is Different! -- How can this be? -- Pickling and Planting to Victory -- Chernobyl : End and Beginning -- ll -- Lemberg to Lviv -- Ruthenes and Little Russians -- Nikita at the Opera -- Stalin's Chicken -- The History Prison -- The Shtreimel of Lviv -- The Scottish Book of Maths and all that -- Tourists and the Tower of Death -- lll -- The Bessarabian Ticket -- Windsof Change -- Bones of Contention -- Jumping Ship -- A Patriot of this Land -- Conchita Wurst and the Old Idiots -- The Deep Hole -- Kilometre Zero -- IV -- The Coal Launderers -- The Welsh and the Wild East -- The View from the Terricone -- Getting to Yes -- Empire and Virility -- Crimea : Because He Could -- V -- First Blood -- Tsar v. Cossacks -- The Wolf's Hook Club -- From Amazonia to New Russia -- Leaving Home -- Surviving Sloviansk -- Towns at War -- The War Poets -- VI -- Defining Optimism -- Askania-Nova and the Zebra of Death -- A Hundred Years of Crap -- Not Dead Yet. |
| Summary |
Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more than two million people have been displaced, and Ukrainians fight one another on a second front--the crucial war against corruption. Judah talks to everyone from politicians to poets, pensioners, and historians. Listening to their clashing explanations, he interweaves their stories to create a sweeping, tragic portrait of a country fighting a war of independence from Russia--twenty-five years after the collapse of the USSR"--book jacket. |
| Subject |
Judah, Tim, 1962- -- Travel -- Ukraine.
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| Subject(S) |
Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- -- Social aspects -- Personal narratives.
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Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- -- Social aspects.
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War and society -- Ukraine -- History -- 21st century.
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Ukraine -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
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Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Ukraine.
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Personal narratives.
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| ISBN |
9780451495471 |
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0451495470 |
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