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The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution

Categorie	Geschiedenis Oost-Europa
Boeknummer	#411140-XU23
Titel	The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution
Auteur	Shore, Marci
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2017
ISBN10	0300218680
ISBN13	9780300218688
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 i... (Lees verder)ndividual 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.
Pagina's	290
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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