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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; A Note about Transliteration; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Far from Heaven; 1.1 A Curious Face; 1.2 Graffito; 1.3 A New American; 1.4 Domes and Demons; 1.5 A Changing City; 1.6 Angry Citizens; 1.7 Linking to the Literature; 1.8 Postsocialist Urbanism; 2. The Missing Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv; 2.1 Life in Limbo; 2.2 An Imperium of Raiders; 2.3 Theater at Teatralna; 2.4 A Dubious Home; 3. Sketches from the Capital; 3.1 Castle Hill; 3.2 Notes from Euro 2012; 3.3 Monumental Woes; 3.4 Demons at Desiatynna; 3.5 The Ukrainian Fight Club.
- 3.6 A Missing Mayor3.7 A Geography of the President; 3.8 Helipad from Hell; 4. Soviet Ways, Post-Soviet Days; 4.1 Looking after Lenin; 4.2 Red Army Birthday; 4.3 One Day in the Life of the Ukrainian Language; 4.4 May 18, 2013; 4.5 Heorhiy Ruslanovych Gongadze; 4.6 A Personal Warning?; 5. Historical Memory; 5.1 Place-name Gymnastics; 5.2 Remembering the Great Patriotic War; 5.3 Babyn Yar; 5.4 The Holodomor Museum; 5.5 The Legacy of Chornobyl; 5.6 Rebuilding Religion; 6. The Center of Kyiv; 6.1 A Taste of History; 6.2 Ghosts; 6.3 Maidan: Independence Square; 6.4 Khreshchatyk: Main Street Kyiv.
- 6.5 TsUM in Transition6.6 SS. Sophia, Michael, and Hyatt; 6.7 Remaking Andrew's Descent; 6.8 Podil at a Crossroads; 7. A Geography of Privilege and Pretension; 7.1 A Diamond Monster; 7.2 Face Control in Arena City; 7.3 Men in Black; 7.4 The Strange New Neighborhood of Vozdvyzhenka; 7.5 Koncha Zaspa: Gated Hideaway; 7.6 Bullies with Bentleys; 8. Landscapes of Struggle; 8.1 The Killing of Oksana Makar; 8.2 Faces of Poverty; 8.3 Petty Traders; 8.4 The People's Markets; 8.5 The Scourge of Prejudice; 8.6 Roma; 9. "Suburbia"; 9.1 The Residential Ring; 9.2 Commerce, Cars, and Billboards.
- 9.3 The Middle Class and the Malls9.4 Four Photographs; 10. Seamy Stories; 10.1 "No More Heroines"; 10.2 Visitors from Abroad; 10.3 Sex Tourism; 10.4 Export Wives; 10.5 River Vice; 10.6 The Voices of FEMEN; 11. The Defenders of Kyiv; 11.1 Hero City; 11.2 The Grassroots; 11.3 Save Old Kyiv; 11.4 The Republic of Hostynyi Dvir; 11.5 Oleksandr Glukhov's Apartment; 11.6 The Ordeal of Oleksandr Hudyma; 11.7 The Last Farmstead in Pozniaky; 12. Reflections; 12.1 A Souvenir and a Song; 12.2 A Messy Period; 12.3 A Book Review; 13. Two Years Later; 13.1 Euromaidan and Aftermath.
- 13.2 The Last Days of Euromaidan13.3 Kyiv Updates; References; Index; List of Illustrations and Tables; List of Illustrations; Figure 0.1
- The author and 26 of his 27 students at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, May 2011, plus Peter; Figure 1.1
- "Ukraine Is Far from Heaven" graffito; Figure 1.2
- Olena Zhelesko with megaphone; Figure 1.3
- A view of Kyiv across the Dnipro River; Figure 2.1
- Exhibits from the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv being packed up for moving to limbo (Courtesy of V. Kovalynskyi); Figure 3.1
- Under the People's Friendship Arch.
- Figure 3.2
- The small and controversial Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. In the background is the historic, baroque St. Andrew's Church, while to the right is a fence that demarcates the site of Desiatynna Church. The signboard announces that.