The frontline
essays on Ukraine's past and present
- ISBN: 9780674268821
- Editorial: Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2022
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (MSS). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Harvard Series in Ukranian Studies
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 416
- Idiomas: Inglés
The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's complex relations with Russia and the West, the burden of tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine's contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Juxtaposing Ukraine's history to the contemporary politics of memory, this volume provides a multidimensional image of a country that continues to make headlines around the world. Eloquent in style and comprehensive in approach, the essays collected here reveal the roots of the ongoing political, cultural, and military conflict in Ukraine, the largest country in Europe.
1. Quo Vadis Ukrainian History?
I. Cossack Stock
2. Placing Ukraine on the Map of Europe
3. Russia and Ukraine: Did They Reunite in 1654?
4. Hadiach 1658: The Origins of a Myth
5. The Return of Ivan Mazepa
II. The Red Century
6. How Russian Was the Russian Revolution?
7. Killing by Hunger
8. Mapping the Great Famine
9. The Call of Blood
10. The Battle for Eastern Europe
11. The American Dream
III. Farewell to the Empire
12. The Soviet Collapse
13. Chornobyl
14. Truth in Our Times
15. The Empire Strikes Back
16. When Stalin Lost His Head
17. Goodbye Lenin!
IV. European Horizons
18. The Russian Question
19. The Quest for Europe
20. The New Eastern Europe
21. Reimagining the Continent
