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Borderland : a journey through the history of Ukraine
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- ISBN: 9781780229270 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
xix, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
regular print - Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. "Fully updated" -- Cover. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface to 2015 edition -- Part One. The new Jerusalem : Kiev ; Poles and Cossacks : Kamyanets Podilsky ; The Russian Sea : Donetsk and Odessa ; The books of Genesis : Lviv ; A meaningless fragment : Chernivtsi ; The great hunger : Matussiv and Lukovytsya ; The vanished nation : Ivano-Frankivsk ; The wart on Russia's nose : Crimea ; The empire explodes : Chernobyl ; Europe or little Russia? Ukraina -- Part Two. The rise and fall of the Orange Revolution ; The Maidan ; Putin strikes back ; What next? |
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| Subject: | Ukraine -- Ethnic relations Ukraine -- History |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Fort Nelson Public Library | 947.7 REI (Text) | 35246000879294 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
A classic and vivid history of Ukraine, fully updated to cover the Euromaidan Revolution in 2014 and ongoing crisis in the Donbass. Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally won independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Tiring of their own corrupt governments, Ukrainians have since mounted two popular revolutions, taking to the streets to demand fair elections and closer ties to Europe. In the spring of 2014, Russia responded by invading Crimea and sponsoring a civil war in the Russian-speaking Donbass. Threatened by Moscow, misunderstood in the West, Ukraine hangs once more in the balance. Speaking to pro-democracy activists and pro-Russia militiamen, peasants and miners, survivors of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's famine, Anna Reid combines history and travel-writing to unpick the past and present of this bloody and complex borderland.
