Karl Schlögel, „Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland“
In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe’s borderland and in Russia’s shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the political conundrum resulting from Russia’s actions and the ongoing Information War. As well as exploring this confrontation, Schlögel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine’s major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Yalta – cities whose often troubled and war-torn histories are as varied as the nationalities and cultures which have made them what they are today, survivors with very particular identities and aspirations. Schlögel feels the pulse of life in these cities, analysing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future.
Contents
Ukraine, Or Remapping Europe: Preface To The English Edition
Author’s Note
Europe’s Ukraina: An Introduction
1 Information War
2 Farewell To Empire, Farewell To Russia?
3 Seeing For Ourselves: Discovering Ukraine
4 Kiev, Metropolis
5 Ah, Odessa: A City In An Era Of Great Expectations
6 Promenade In Yalta
7 Look Upon This City: Kharkov, A Capital Of The Twentieth Century
8 Dnepropetrovsk: Rocket City On The Dnieper And City Of Potemkin
9 Donetsk: Twentieth-Century Urbicides
10 Czernowitz: City Upon A Hill
11 Lviv: Capital Of Provincial Europe
12 The Shock: Thinking The Worst-Case Scenario
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Karl Schlögel is a historian and essayist and Professor Emeritus of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His many books include histories of Moscow, Berlin and St Petersburg, and he won the European Charles Veillon essay prize in 1990 and the prize of the Historisches Kolleg Munich in 2016.
Hardback 2018
Paperback 2022
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