Dark Days, Determined People

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1958-5
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: Ukrainian voices

After Russia attacked Ukraine from the north, east, and south in February 2022, many Ukrainians had to put their lives on hold to protect the very possibility of living in their homes. While telling wartime stories of people of different backgrounds, this book also delves into the wider historical, political, and cultural context of life in Ukraine.

How did two friends save hundreds of civilians, and how did one restaurant manage to feed a besieged city? What is it like to live under Russian occupation? What does a former businessman feel as he evacuates the bodies of fallen soldiers, day after day? Why do some people choose to live amid the rubble of their homes? And what is it like to fight continuously for ten years? Each of these 20 stories reveals an important theme of life during the full-scale war, with all its difficulties, hesitations, and inner conflicts, when reality sometimes surpasses fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hrudka, Orysia Ben

Hrudka, Orysia

Ben, Bohdan

Hrudka, Orysja

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Marynovych, Myroslav

Über Autor(innen)

Marynovych, Myroslav
Myroslav Marynovych is a Ukrainian publicist, lecturer, and human rights activist. A former dissident in the Soviet Union, he is co-founder of Amnesty International Ukraine and a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, established in 1976. In 1977, the USSR imprisoned him for seven years, followed by five years of exile in Kazakhstan.

Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Ben, Bohdan
Bohdan Ben is a freelance author, journalist, and researcher in the field of philosophy. He has been writing for Euromaidan Press since 2018, covering Ukrainian culture, history, and reforms. Since 2022, he has written dozens in-depth articles on the Russo-Ukrainian War. He also contributes book reviews to various outlets and writes prose.

Hrudka, Orysia
Orysia Hrudka is a freelance author and book reviewer for the journal Krytyka based at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. In February 2022, she interrupted her research project in Cultural Studies at the University of Glasgow and returned to Ukraine to report on the Russo-Ukrainian war for Euromaidan Press. In addition to her journalistic work, she writes poetry and short prose.

Orysia Hrudkais a freelance author, journalist, book reviewer, and cultural studies researcher based in Ukraine. Since 24 February 2022, she has been writing for Press, focusing mainly on the war, Ukrainian politics, and culture.

Bohdan Ben is a freelance author, journalist, and philosophy researcher based in Ukraine. He has been writing for since 2018, covering Ukrainian culture, history, political reforms, and the war.