Ukraine : A Nation on the Borderland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlögel, Karl.

Contributor:

Jackson, Gerrit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukraine.

Geopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, Limited, 2018.

Summary:

Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical corruption, the game has become one of life and death.In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe's borderland and in Russia's shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the political conundrum resulting from Russia's actions and the ongoing Information War. As well as exploring this present-day confrontation, Schlögel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine's major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, and Yalta-cities whose often troubled and war-torn histories are as varied as the nationalities and cultures which have made them what they are today, survivors with very particular identities and aspirations. Schlögel feels the pulse of life in these cities, analyzing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future.  

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface to the New Edition

Ukraine, or Remapping Europe: Preface to the English Edition

Author's Note

Europe's Ukraina: An Introduction

1. Information War

2. Farewell to Empire, Farewell to Russia?

3. Seeing for Ourselves: Discovering Ukraine

4. Kiev, Metropolis

5. Ah, Odessa: A City in an Era of Great Expectations

6. Promenade in Yalta

7. Look Upon this City: Kharkov, A Capital of the Twentieth Century

8. Dnepropetrovsk: Rocket City on the Dnieper and City of Potemkin

9. Donetsk: Twentieth-Century Urbicides

10. Czernowitz: City Upon A Hill

11. Lviv: Capital of Provincial Europe

12. The Shock: Thinking the Worst-Case Scenario

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Schlögel, Karl Ukraine

ISBN:

9781789140200

178914020X

OCLC:

1300753417