The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution - Couverture rigide

Shore, Marci

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300218680 ISBN 13 : 9780300218688

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2018

Synopsis

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential

What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013-14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices.

In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore's book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian's reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it--and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marci Shore is associate professor of history at Yale University and award-winning author of Caviar and Ashes and The Taste of Ashes. She has spent much of her adult life in Central and Eastern Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300218680
• ISBN 13: 9780300218688
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible