{"id":39818,"date":"2024-02-24T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T21:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=39818"},"modified":"2024-02-24T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T21:54:30","slug":"serhii-plokhy-the-frontline-essays-on-ukraines-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=39818","title":{"rendered":"Serhii Plokhy, \u201eThe Frontline: Essays on Ukraine\u2019s Past and Present\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Frontline<\/em> presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy\u2019s <em>The Gates of Europe<\/em> and <em>Chernobyl<\/em>. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine\u2019s complex relations with Russia and the West, the burden of tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine\u2019s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juxtaposing Ukraine\u2019s history to the contemporary politics of memory, this volume provides a multidimensional image of a country that continues to make headlines around the world. Eloquent in style and comprehensive in approach, the essays collected here reveal the roots of the ongoing political, cultural, and military conflict in Ukraine, the largest country in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Praise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exceptionally illuminating for the current moment\u2026What emerges from some of these essays\u2026is a powerful sense that Putin\u2019s wantonly destructive delusions and machinations have had the unintended effect of helping to consolidate Ukraine as the unified and distinctive nation whose existence he flatly denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Wolff, Times Literary Supplement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection is an excellent overview of some of the historical undercurrents which diffused the Ukrainian narrative\u2014from west to east\u2014across Ukraine\u2019s Russified central and southeast oblasts over the past twenty years. Most importantly, these essays shed light on why the overwhelming majority of Ukraine\u2019s citizens adopted this narrative and why they still defiantly resist returning to Russia\u2019s colonial orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George O. Liber, Russian Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo S. 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