Kyiv Ukraine the city of domes and demons from the collapse of socialism to the mass uprising of 2013-2014

The unrest and violence in Ukraine in recent years shocked the world, and the region's long-term future remains troublingly uncertain. Focusing on the difficulty of Kiev's transition from socialism to market democracy, this book demonstrates how Ukraine reached this turbulent point. Roman...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cybriwsky, Roman A., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2016.
Edición:Revised edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649786806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • A Note about Transliteration
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • 1. Far from Heaven
  • 2. The Missing Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv
  • 3. Sketches from the Capital
  • 4. Soviet Ways, Post-Soviet Days
  • 5. Historical Memory
  • 6. The Center of Kyiv
  • 7. A Geography of Privilege and Pretension
  • 8. Landscapes of Struggle
  • 9. "Suburbia"
  • 10. Seamy Stories
  • 11. The Defenders of Kyiv
  • 12. Reflections
  • 13. Two Years Later
  • References
  • Index