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In wartime : stories from Ukraine / Tim Judah.

By: Publisher: New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: xxviii, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780451495471
  • 0451495470
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: In wartime.DDC classification:
  • 947.086 23
LOC classification:
  • DK508.846 .J832 2016
Contents:
l. Memory wars: Weaponising history -- Thumbelina in Donetsk -- Our history is different! -- How can this be? -- Pickling and planting to victory -- Chernobyl : end and beginning -- ll. Western approaches. 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. Fraying edge: The Bessarabian ticket -- Winds of change -- Bones of contention -- Jumping ship -- A patriot of this land -- Conchita Wurst and the Old Idiots -- The deep hole -- Kilometer zero -- IV. Eastern approaches: 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. War zone: 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. Escaping the past: Defining optimism -- Askania-Nova and the Zebra of Death -- A hundred years of crap -- Not dead yet.
Scope and content: "From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. 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. With In Wartime, Tim Judah lays bare the events that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe's second-largest country in a conflict seemingly without end. In Lviv, Ukraine's western cultural capital, mothers tend the graves of sons killed on the other side of the country. On the Maidan, the square where the protests that deposed President Yanukovych began, pamphleteers, recruiters, buskers, and mascots compete for attention. In Donetsk, civilians who cheered Russia's President Putin find their hopes crushed as they realize they have been trapped in the twilight zone of a frozen conflict. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks DK508.846 .J832 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001390896

"Selected material was originally published in different form in the New York Review of Books and its blog, the NYR Daily, in 2013 and 2014." -- copyright page

"Originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, ... in 2015." -- copyright page

"From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. 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. With In Wartime, Tim Judah lays bare the events that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe's second-largest country in a conflict seemingly without end. In Lviv, Ukraine's western cultural capital, mothers tend the graves of sons killed on the other side of the country. On the Maidan, the square where the protests that deposed President Yanukovych began, pamphleteers, recruiters, buskers, and mascots compete for attention. In Donetsk, civilians who cheered Russia's President Putin find their hopes crushed as they realize they have been trapped in the twilight zone of a frozen conflict. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

l. Memory wars: Weaponising history -- Thumbelina in Donetsk -- Our history is different! -- How can this be? -- Pickling and planting to victory -- Chernobyl : end and beginning -- ll. Western approaches. 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. Fraying edge: The Bessarabian ticket -- Winds of change -- Bones of contention -- Jumping ship -- A patriot of this land -- Conchita Wurst and the Old Idiots -- The deep hole -- Kilometer zero -- IV. Eastern approaches: 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. War zone: 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. Escaping the past: Defining optimism -- Askania-Nova and the Zebra of Death -- A hundred years of crap -- Not dead yet.

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