The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present
Serhii Plokhy
(Author)
Description
The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's 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's contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Juxtaposing Ukraine's 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.Product Details
Price
$76.80
Publisher
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Publish Date
November 02, 2021
Pages
416
Dimensions
6.3 X 9.21 X 1.02 inches | 1.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780674268821
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About the Author
Serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo S. Hrushevs´kyi Professor of Ukrainian History in the Department of History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
Reviews
Exceptionally illuminating for the current moment...What emerges from some of these essays...is a powerful sense that Putin's 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.--Larry Wolff "Times Literary Supplement" (5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM)
