A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became existential. Marci Shore writes about how people in Ukraine during the unlikely winter of 2013-14 experienced the revolution as an existential transformation: the alteration of night and day, the loss of the sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the urgent need for choices. Maidan was an enlightenment of the human capacity for birth, the ability to act, to begin again. It was the defining moment without which the Ukrainian resistance to the full-scale Russian invasion cannot be understood.
In this lyrical and painful book, Marci Shore captures the human dimension of the Ukrainian revolution. Based on interviews with activists and soldiers, parents and children, her book combines a narrative full of agony with a historian's reflections on what revolution means. It defines the portraits of individual revolutionaries in the past as they understand it and in the future as they hope to shape it. In this way, it provides a lesson in human solidarity in a world where the boundaries between reality and fantasy are becoming increasingly blurred.
Pp. 340, Year of publication: 0722, Dimensions: 14x14cm
