Understanding Ukraine

International Auflage
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1773-4
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 210 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Reihe: Ukrainian Voices

The 2013–2014 Euromaidan Revolution’s call for justice, dignity, and liberty brought Ukraine, which had ’disappeared ’ behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II, into the world’s public consciousness. Yet, the country was soon almost forgotten again. In early 2022, the rapid escalation of Putin’s war on Ukraine has put the country back into the spotlight. Without knowing the country’s past, one cannot understand its present.

This anthology tackles the complex history of terror and violence in Ukraine – from the millionfold starvation of the Holodomor to the changing occupation regimes, from the ’Shoah by Bullets’ to the Chornobyl disaster. Those ready to delve deeper into the checkered, painful history of the country will better understand Ukraine’s current quest for independence, freedom, and democracy.

The volume’s contributors are Serhii Plokhii, Timothy D. Snyder, Anna Veronika Wendland, Anne Applebaum, Eduard Klein, Gelinada Grinchenko, Gerhard Simon, Irina Scherbakowa, Jan Claas Behrends, Karel C. Berkhoff, Kateryna Mishchenko, Klaus Wolschner, Nikolai Klimeniouk, Nikolaus von Twickel, Oksana Grytsenko, Ottmar Tra?ca, Rebecca Harms, Sebastian Christ, Sébastien Gobert, Viktoria Savchuk, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Wilfried Jilge, Christoph Brumme, and Yevhen Hlibovytsky.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, Marieluise

Plokhii, Serhii

Snyder, Timothy

Wendland, Anna Veronika

Applebaum, Anne

Klein, Eduard

Grinchenko, Gelinada

Simon, Gerhard

Scherbakowa, Irina

Behrends, Jan Claas

Berkhoff, Karel C.

Mishchenko, Kateryna

Wolschner, Klaus

Klimeniouk, Nikolai

Twickel, Nikolaus von

Grytsenko, Oksana

Trasca, Ottmar

Harms, Rebecca

Christ, Sebastian

Gobert, Sebastien

Savchuk, Viktoria

Yermolenko, Volodymyr

Jilge, Wilfried

Brumme, Christoph

Hlibovytsky, Yevhen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Plokhii, Serhii

Plokhy, Serhii

Snyder, Timothy

Wendland, Anna Veronika

Applebaum, Anne

Klein, Eduard

Grinchenko, Gelinada

Simon, Gerhard

Scherbakowa, Irina

Behrend, Jan Claas

Behrends, Jan Claas

Berkhoff, Karel C.

Mishchenko, Kateryna

Wolschner, Klaus

Klimeniouk, Nikolai

Twickel, Nikolaus von

Grytsenko, Oksana

Harms, Rebecca

Trasca, Ottmar

Christ, Sebastian

Gobert, Sébastien

Savchuk, Viktoria

Gobert, Sebastien

Yermolenko, Volodymyr

Jilge, Wilfried

Brumme, Christoph

Hlibovytsky, Yevhen

Kuleba, Dmytro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Über Autor(innen)

Plokhy, Serhii
Dr. Serhii Plokhy ist Professor für Ukrainische Geschichte und Direktor des Ukrainischen Forschungsinstituts an der Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Der Bestsellerautor von Das Tor Europas: Die Geschichte der Ukraine (2022), Die Frontlinie (2022) und Der Angriff: Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und seine Folgen für die Welt (2023) ist preisgekrönter Verfasser zahlreicher Bücher.

Yermolenko, Volodymyr
Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, journalist and writer. He is the President of PEN Ukraine and the current Analytics director at Internews Ukraine, one of the largest and oldest Ukrainian media NGOs. He is also the Editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project in English about Ukraine and an Associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He has been published in numerous outlets, such as The Economist, Le Monde, Financial Times, New York Times, and Newsweek.

Applebaum, Anne
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for the Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian.

Kuleba, Dmytro
Dmytro Kuleba has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since 2020.

Beck, Marieluise
Marieluise Beck has for decades been a notable German politician. She was, among others, Member of the German Bundestag for the Green Party and speaker of her parliamentary group for Eastern Europe. Beck co-founded, in 2017, the Center for Liberal Modernity (LibMod) in Berlin. LibMod is an independent think tank that stands for the defense of liberal democracy and accompanies Eastern European countries in their transition to internationally embedded, law-governed, and pluralistic societies.

Snyder, Timothy
Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and the author of a number of books, including Bloodlands, The Road to Unfreedom, and the forthcoming On Freedom.

Marieluise Beck has for decades been a notable German politician. She was, among others, Member of the German Bundestag for the Green Party and speaker of her parliamentary group for Eastern Europe. Beck co-founded, in 2017, the Center for Liberal Modernity (LibMod) in Berlin. LibMod is an independent think tank that stands for the defense of liberal democracy and accompanies Eastern European countries in their transition to internationally embedded, law-governed, and pluralistic societies.