Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine - The Challenge of Change
The Challenge of Change
Published on 21. February 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-3-8382-1056-8 (ISBN)
Description
What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including information and religious wars; Ukrainian and Russian identities and cultural realignment; sources of destabilization in Ukraine and beyond; memory politics and Russian foreign policies; the Kremlin's geopolitical goals in its 'near abroad'; and factors determining Ukraine's future and survival in a state of war. The studies included in this collection illuminate the growing gap between the political and social systems of Ukraine and Russia. The anthology illustrates how the Ukrainian revolution of 2013-2014, Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and its invasion of eastern Ukraine have altered the post-Cold War political landscape and, with it, regional and global power and security dynamics.
Reviews / Votes
Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine is indispensable reading for anyone who wants clearheaded, unbiased, multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between Ukraine's revolutionary democratic strivings and Putin's Russia's imperial response. -- Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University-Newark This excellent collection brings together specialists on contemporary Ukraine to provide an erudite, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date portrait of the nation confronting a hybrid war-and an assault on its very identity. The topics covered include the Euromaidan Revolution, the Russian takeover of the Crimea, the reform attempts by the new Ukrainian government, and the lingering war in the Donbas. This book's special strength is the attention that the authors pay to the language and representations, as well as to the cultural sphere in general, including religion and historical mythologies. Olga Bertelsen's insightful introduction and epilogue complement her remarkable editorial achievement of putting together such a comprehensive collection so soon after the events took place. -- Serhy Yekelchyk, professor of history and Slavic studies, University of Victoria This book, beautifully edited by Olga Bertelsen, is a very important and timely contribution to the growing literature on recent Ukrainian political, social, and cultural developments and Putin's war against Ukraine. The essays of this collection, written by prominent Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, and Western experts in Ukrainian history, politics, and culture, contain precious information which not only explains to the Western audience the recent situation in the Eastern European post-Soviet political space, but also convincingly demonstrates the danger of Putin's political regime. -- Sergei I. Zhuk, Ball State UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Stuttgart
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-1056-8 (9783838210568)
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Person
Olga Bertelsen is a writer in residence at New York University and research fellow of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She has published monographs on the Ukrainian theater Berezil (Smoloskyp, 2016) and Ukraine's House of Writers in the 1930s (Pittsburgh, 2013) as well as translated documents on the persecution of Zionists in Ukraine (On the Jewish Street, 2011). She is currently preparing books for publication on Stalin's terror in Ukraine, post-Soviet imperial consciousness among Russian writers, and the social history of Ukraine's 1932-1933 famine.