Greetings from Novorossiya : eyewitness to the war in Ukraine

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"In autumn of 2014, the people of Ukraine rose up against their authoritarian president Yanukovych, rallying for democracy and occupying Kiev's main square under the blue flag of the European Union. They were met with bullets from the regime, and the slaughter of a hundred peaceful protesters made the Euromaidan synonymous with moral courage and the yearning for freedom. Yanukovych fled to Russia, and Putin, sensing a potentially existential thre...

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Luhansʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine) History, Military 21st century

Nationalism Ukraine 21st century

Russia (Federation) Foreign relations Ukraine

Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-

Ukraine Foreign relations Russia (Federation)

Ukraine History 1991-2014

Ukraine History 21st century

Ukraine History Revolution of Dignity, 2013-2014

Ukraine Politics and government 1991-2014

Part of a Series:

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies Series in Russian and East European studies

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ISBN:

9780822965107

Description:

xviii, 206 pages : colour illustrations ; 16 x 23 cm

Notes:

Includes index
Translated from the Polish
Translated from the Polish

Contents:

Introduction by Timothy Snyder
Cheerful in Donetsk
Disintegration
In Novorossiya, or Where?
The separatists' first capital
Kiev is powerless
Disaster comes
The fallen city
War comes to Donetsk
The story of a missile
Transnistria on the Don

LCCN:

2018288016

Control Number:

3176251

Other Authors:

Markoff, John, 1942- translator
Markoff, Małgorzata, translator
Snyder, Timothy, writer of introduction
translation of: Pieniążek, Paweł. Pozdrowienia z Noworosji. English

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