One Ukrainian Summer

Author : Viv Groskop
Publisher : Bonnier Books UK
ISBN 13 : 180418487X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Ukrainian Summer written by Viv Groskop and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A memoir that captivates and delights. Fabulous' - Nina Stibbe Autumn 1993. The former USSR. Viv is about to turn 21 and is on a study year abroad, supposedly immersed in the language, history and politics of a world that has just ceased to exist: the Soviet Union. Instead, she finds herself immersed in Bogdan Bogdanovich - the lead guitarist of a Ukrainian punk rock band. As the temperature drops, he promises that if she can get through the freezing Russian winter, he will give her "one Ukrainian summer." But is he serious about her? Or is she just another groupie? At parties, gigs and dive bars, Viv and her new friends argue over whose turn it is to buy cigarettes, the best places to find Levi's jeans and whether beer counts as a soft drink. No-one debates the merits of speaking Ukrainian over Russian, the precise location of the border or the undeniable brightness of the future. Of course good times are here to stay. Because the Soviet Union is finished. Isn't it? A poignant and often comical account of coming-of-age in the time after the Cold War and before Putin, One Ukrainian Summer is a love letter to a unique moment in history. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK WILL BE DONATED TO PEN INTERNATIONAL

Author : Marta Dyczok
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838214722
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukraine Calling written by Marta Dyczok and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is like a time capsule containing a selection of interviews that aired on Hromadske Radio’s Ukraine Calling show. They capture what people were thinking during a critical time in the country’s history, from the July 2016 NATO Summit through to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 2019 landslide election victories. Decision makers, opinion makers, and other interesting people commented on events of the day as well as larger issues. Topics range from politics to sports, religion, history, war, books, diplomacy, health, business, art, holidays, foreign policy, anniversaries, public opinion to freedom of speech. Interview guests include Canada’s then Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, writer Andrey Kurkov, Crimean political prisoner Hennadii Afanasiev, who was tortured in 2014, Ukraine’s acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun, American analyst/journalist Brian Whitmore, UNHRC’s Pablo Mateu, ethnologist Ihor Poshyvailo, investment banker Olena Bilan, Tufts University’s Daniel Drezner, a cameo appearance by Boris Johnson, and many more. Together these interviews provide a unique, diverse, and kaleidoscopic perspective conveying the substance, atmosphere, and flavor of Ukraine while it was on the receiving end of a hybrid war from Russia.

Author : Samir Puri
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785907719
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Road to War with Ukraine written by Samir Puri and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We don't yet know where the current battle is headed. But Puri's 'first cut' will help us greatly in fathoming how we got here." – Patrick Porter, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham *** When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for years. Tracing the relationship between the two countries from the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 to Putin's invasion in 2022, what emerges from this gripping and accessible book is a portrait of a nation caught in a geopolitical tug of war between Russia and the West. While Russia is identified as the sole aggressor, we see how Western bodies such as the EU and NATO unrealistically raised Ukraine's expectations of membership before dashing them, leaving Ukraine without formal allies and fatally exposed to Russian aggression. As a former international observer, Samir Puri was present for several of the major events covered in this book. He uses this experience to ask honestly: how did we get here? Why does Vladimir Putin view Ukraine as the natural property of Russia? Did the West handle its dealings with these countries prudently? Or did it inflame the tensions left amidst the ruins of the Soviet Union? Were there any missed opportunities to avert the war? And how might this conflict end?

Author : Stephen Velychenko
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487504683
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine written by Stephen Velychenko and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a survey of domestic governmental and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is based on an illustrative sample of leaflets, pamphlets, and cartoons published by different parties and governments between 1917 and 1922.

Author : Paul D'Anieri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317452992
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, and Institutional Design written by Paul D'Anieri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukraine made headlines around the world during the winter of 2004-05 as the colorful banners of the Orange Revolution unfurled against the snowy backdrop of Kyiv, signaling the bright promise of democratic rebirth. But is that what is really happening in Ukraine? In the early post-Soviet period, Ukraine appeared to be firmly on the path to democracy. The peaceful transfer of power from Leonid Kravchuk to Leonid Kuchma in the election of 1994, followed by the adoption of a western-style democratic constitution in 1996, seemed to complete the picture. But the Kuchma presidency was soon clouded by dark rumors of corruption and even political murder, and by 2004 the country was in full-blown political crisis. A three-stage presidential contest was ultimately won by Viktor Yushchenko, who took office in 2005 and appointed Yulia Tymoshenko as premier, but the turmoil was far from over. The new government quickly faltered and splintered. This introduction to Ukrainian politics looks beyond these dramatic events and compelling personalities to identify the actual play of power in Ukraine and the operation of its political system. The author seeks to explain how it is that, after each new beginning, power politics has trumped democratic institution-building in Ukraine, as in so many other post-Soviet states. What is really at work here, and how can Ukraine break the cycle of hope and disillusionment?

Author : United States. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agricultural Climatology, Vegetative Cover, and Crop Ecology of the Ukraine and the Ukrainian Climatic Analogues in North America written by United States. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Y. H. Hui
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482260700
Total Pages : 1536 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Fermented Food and Beverage Technology Two Volume Set written by Y. H. Hui and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fermented food can be produced with inexpensive ingredients and simple techniques and makes a significant contribution to the human diet, especially in rural households and village communities worldwide. Progress in the biological and microbiological sciences involved in the manufacture of these foods has led to commercialization and heightened int

Author : Volodymyr V. Kravchenko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179360908X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War written by Volodymyr V. Kravchenko and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian historical writing in North America during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies in Canada and the United States as an open, sometimes difficult dialogue between the Ukrainian ethnic and academic communities on the one hand and between Ukrainian scholars and Western academic mainstream on the other. He focuses on the institutional and the intellectual issues including various interpretations of major topics related to the Ukrainian national grand narrative, considering them in the evolving academic and political contexts of Slavic, East European, and Soviet studies.

Author : David R. Marples
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349108804
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukraine under Perestroika written by David R. Marples and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-07-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the problems of the environment and industry in Ukraine from 1985 to 1990. The main theme of the book is the close link between the damage to nature and the growth of political activism and patriotism in Ukraine.

Author : Inc Ibp
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329244370
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukraine Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information written by Inc Ibp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukraine Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information