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    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2020

      How Ukraine Lost Donbas

      by Denys Kazanskyi, Maryna Vorotyntseva

      This book is not about war."How Ukraine lost Donbas" is the latest history of two regions of Ukraine, Donetsk, and Luhansk.This book is about the economic catastrophe of the region, Russian propaganda expansion, the formation of powerful financial and political clans, and the origins of separatism.We talk about how the powerful elites of Donbas first lit the fire of enmity, then burned in it themselves, pushing their region into the abyss of bloodshed.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2018

      How the Cossacks Defended Ukraine

      by Yuriy Mytsyk, Serhii Plokhy

      The book contains a fascinating story written in the genre of popular science about the emergence of the Ukrainian Cossacks, their prosperity and decline. The customs of the Cossacks, their military art, religious life, daily life, organization and functions of the Zaporizhzhya Sich Army, the struggle against external enemies, and the contribution of the Cossacks to the culture of the Ukraine are analysed. The impact of Cossack traditions on the mentality and social and political life of modern Ukrainians is also highlighted.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2021

      I AM UKRAINE. WORLDVIEW OF UKRAINIANS

      by Maria Chumarna

      The book introduces the reader to the worldview of ancient Ukraine, acquaints with the customs and material culture of our people, which was born and revived from generation to generation under the roof of the "straw temple", which was a Ukrainian house. The author considers the treasures of folk culture not as an archaic heritage, but as a genetic source of spiritual memory and strength for future generations. Ukraine is not outside, it is in each of us. For the widest range of readers.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2020

      I Will Mix Your Blood With Coal. Understanding Ukrainian East

      by Oleksandr Mykhed

      In 2014, the Russian army, with support from local militants, had occupied parts of Ukraine’s two easternmost regions, the regions that were the beating industrial heart of the socialist utopia in the Soviet era, and where coal extraction has exhausted both the human population and the natural resources. The regions have suffered from the post-Soviet chaos for decades. In the late 2016, the author set out on a research trip to the East to answer the common questions of those who’ve never been to the region. He takes his readers on a complicated, painful and hopeful trip across the Ukrainian East, guiding them through conversations with the locals, archival research, and conversations with prominent cultural fi gures like writer Serhij Zhadan or released after 700 days of terrorist captivity historian Ihor Kozlovskyi that were born in the region. The readers will meet the miners, the Belgian and British investors who founded the eastern cities, the priceless coal, events of the First and Second World War, the bloody Soviet history, the activists who are now working to improve the country, and sweet memories of the lost paradise.

    • True stories
      2020

      Lost Island

      by Natalia Gumenyuk

      The Lost Island is a collection of reportage pieces from the Russian- occupied Crimea by a well-known journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk, who visited the peninsula in 2014– 2019. Her book tells the true stories and tragedies of people whose lives took a drastic turn after 2014. Some of these Crimean residents live under occupation, others in a different country. What is the unvarnished truth of their stories? Businessmen and retirees, Crimean Tatars, students and activists, human rights advocates and soldiers, people of varied political and ideological affiliations tell their stories: some want to share their quiet, long suppressed pain while others are tired of silently succumbing to fear.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2020

      MAGISTRA VITAE. Conversations about history with Serhii Plokhy

      by Serhii Plokhy

      The lessons of history that we still need to learn are the main topic of a collection of interviews with the prominent Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy. The interviews were given by Plokhy to the leading journalists and scholars of Ukraine and are not only a look at history through the eyes of the present, but also a look at the present through the eyes of the past, a fascinating journey behind the scenes of history books that became bestsellers in Ukraine and abroad. Plokhy also brings a personal perspective to the historical events as a person not only describing them but also living through them.

    • Biography: historical, political & military
      2021

      Mazepa. Rights to the sabre

      by Vira Kuryko

      An outstanding Cossack figure, romanticized in European culture: his image was inspired by Voltaire, Hugo, Liszt, and Byron. Even during the hetman's life, the Russian tsar launched an information war against Mazepa, and for the fourth century, he has been cursed by Moscow and glorified by Ukrainians. Who is he? A hero of his homeland, a traitor, a romantic lover? This book is an attempt to look once again at what we know about Mazepa, his significant role in the history of Europe, his difficult decisions and his bright life.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2012

      Mirrors of Identity. Studies in the History of Concepts and Ideas in Ukraine (16th through the Early 18th Century)

      by Natalia Yakovenko

      A book by a prominent Ukrainian historian, professor of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Natalia Yakovenko includes selected articles on identity formation, worldview, the concept of “correct” power and duty of the nobility in early modern Ukraine

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2021

      Outcasts: Punished by Space

      by Tamara Vronska, Olena Stiazhkina

      Minusnyky (outcasts) are a verbal and social creation of the Soviet state, which, through repression, discrimination and control, created communities of "friends" and "foes", branding the latter with punitive methods and forming a specific language to denote them. The book talks about a special category of citizens of the "Soviet country" who were recognized as "socially dangerous" and punished by a ban on settling in a number of areas of the USSR after forced "removal" from their places of permanent residence, as well as serving time in the Gulag system. The researchers analyze the process of constructing the Bolshevik concept of the geographical isolation of the "disloyal" and determine the logic of creating the Soviet space as a space of prohibitions. The regularity of the Soviet territories is analyzed not only as a manifestation of Stalin's repressive policy but also as an organic part of the functioning of the totalitarian mechanism which picked up momentum when the Bolsheviks seized power.

    • Biography: general
      2020

      Outstanding Women in Ukrainian History. Biographical sketches in historical settings. Book One. 10-18 centuries

      by Serhii Seheda

      In his book, a famous Ukrainian anthropologist Professor Serhii Segeda, tells about famous Ukrainian women who left their mark on the country's history. From the legendary Princess Olha to Natalia Rozumovska, the mother of the last Ukrainian Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky, these women lived lives full of struggle, setbacks and breakthroughs, and had a significant influence on political decisions and statesmen. Their amazing stories will fascinate even the most seasoned readers. For a wide range of readers, history buffs, university students and history teachers.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2013

      Painted history of Ukraine

      by Kapranov Brothers

      It's a well-known short narration of the history of Ukraine starting from archaeological cultures going all the way to the declaration of independence in 1991, accompanied by comics, maps and portraits of prominent figures.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2021

      Skoropadsky and Crimea. From confrontation to connection

      by Serhii Hromenko

      This book tells how the Ukrainian state and the international community at the end of the First World War were responding to Crimea issue.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2017

      Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

      by Oksana Kis

      Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding Ukrainian experience. Kis details the women’s resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences. Following the groundbreaking work of Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History (2003), this book is a must-read for anyone interested in gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2021

      Taste of the Soviet Union: Food and Eaters in the Art of Life and the Art of Cinema (mid-1960s - mid-1980s)

      by Olena Stiazhkina

      This book is about Soviet people - women, men, children - who ate at home, at work, on the road, in kindergartens and schools, in the system of the Soviet canteens. It describes those who fought for their food in long queues to the empty shops, at collective farm markets, gathered it in their own gardens, obtained it through bribes and barter exchanges and stole it at workplaces. It is about those who created the food surpluses in the system of the shadow economy and about those who refused food as a way of rebellion against the system and about those who managed to preserve national cuisine despite its deliberate extermination by the Bolsheviks and calling national dishes "simple nationalism." Food culture is considered not only as a sign of the late Soviet consumer revolution, but also as one of the powerful mechanisms of social engineering and (self) coercion. The real world of Soviet eaters is analysed together with the artistic world where filmmakers created and broadcasted the images of Soviet food, as an object representing repressive society in which taste was as problematic and almost unattainable as food and freedom associated with taste and choice.

    • Food & Drink
      2019

      The Crimean Tatar cuisine

      by Olena Soboleva

      After reading the book, you will discover a lot of dishes common among the Crimean Tatars at the beginning of the XX century. The book will help you better realize how the national cuisine changed as a result of the forced deportation of these people in 1944. The scientific text is accompanied by the native language of the old-timers, which gives it a special sound. The book was written by a researcher who has been studying the history and culture of the Crimean Tatar people for many years.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2021

      The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present

      by Serhii Plokhy

      The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to 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.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      2022

      The Moscow Factor: US Policy toward Sovereign Ukraine and the Kremlin

      by Eugene M. Fishel

      24 February 2022 was not the beginning of Russia's war on Ukraine. Back in 2014, Russia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine, bolstered a separatist conflict in the Donbas region, and attacked Ukraine with units of its regular army and special forces. In each instance of Russian aggression, the U.S. response has often been criticized as inadequate, insufficient, or hesitant. The Moscow Factor: U.S. Policy toward Sovereign Ukraine and the Kremlin is a unique study that examines four key Ukraine-related policy decisions across two Republican and two Democratic U.S. administrations. Author Eugene M. Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances Washington has considered Ukraine’s status as a sovereign nation in its decision-making regarding relations with Moscow. This study situates the stance of the United States toward Ukraine in the broader context of international relations. It fills an important lacuna in existing scholarship and policy discourse by focusing on the complex trilateral—rather than simply bilateral—dynamics among the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia, in 1991–2016. This book brings together for the first time documentary evidence and declassified materials dealing with policy deliberation, retrospective articles authored by former policymakers, and formal memoirs by erstwhile senior officials. The study is also supplemented by open-ended interviews with former and returning officials.

    • Literature & Literary Studies
      1997

      Toward a History of Ukrainian literature

      by George G. Grabowicz

      The work of the famous American-Ukrainian Slavologist and Ukrainian scholar Hryhoriy Hrabovych interprets the history of Ukrainian literature in several main ways: theoretical, comparative, immanent and historiographical. The book includes his studies, essays, and polemics written over the years. They were mainly produced in times of a sharp confrontation between official Soviet and Western approaches to literary studies. Today, after Ukraine gained its independence, there is an urgent need for a thorough reassessment of various scientific traditions and paradigms as well as a review of the canon of Ukrainian literature, its histography and methodology. The vast majority of these works were published in English or in sources unavailable for the Ukrainian reader, including specialist researchers. This edition can significantly reorient our understanding of the history of Ukrainian literature and enable a rethinking of Ukrainian cultural and intellectual processes.

    • The Arts
      October 2021

      Traditional costumes of ethnographic groups of Ukrainians in the Carpathian region

      by Halyna Stelmashchuk

      The new book of the well-known researcher of Ukrainian decorative and visual arts, Professor Halyna Stelmashchuk, is devoted to the folk clothing worn by Ukrainians of ethnographic groups: Boikos, Lemkos, Hutsuls, Pokutians, Bukovyants in the Carpathians. It has many features in common with the clothing used in all regions of Ukraine, but because of climatic, economic, social conditions, and cultural relations with neighboring states over the centuries, the clothing of the Ukrainians of the Carpathians developed its distinctive local features, which are unique by their colorfulness, decoration, method of wearing and the fact that on festive days it can still be seen on people, especially in the Hutsul Region. The book will be interesting to scientists, artists, students, students, tourists, and everyone interested in the history, culture, and art of Ukrainian people.

    • Travel & Transport
      2021

      UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ukraine

      by Roman Malenkov

      The history of Ukraine is turbulent and rich, and the nature is truly unique, so it is not surprising that there are many attractive and interesting tourist sites. But which ones are worth seeing first? According to a number of definitive criteria, UNESCO has identified 7 main natural and cultural sites of Ukraine and included them in the World Heritage List. Moreover, there is also a list of sites considered for nomination in the World Heritage Sites List,which is called the UNESCO Tentative List; in Ukraine there are 17 more such sites. The guidebook by Roman Malenkov, a traveller and founder of the local history website "Ukraine Incognita", will tell about them all.

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