EAN: 9780300276831

THE UKRAINIAN NIGHT - MARCI SHORE KARTONIERT (TB)

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution  the rare moment when the political
became the existential      “Shore brilliantly captures the contingency  uncertainty  and chaos
that was transmuted into the remarkable  seemingly transcendent solidarity of the Maidan’s
unified resistance to a corrupt and cruel régime.”—Charles Taylor  professor emeritus of
philosophy  McGill University      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. The Maidan was an illumination of the human capacity for natality  the ability to act
to begin anew at this moment . It was the turning point without which Ukrainian resistance to
the full-scale Russian invasion cannot be understood.     In this lyrical and piercing book 
Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian revolution. Grounded in interviews with
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.

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