Ukrainian New Drama After The Euromaidan Revolution

Author : Natalka Vorozhbyt,Anastasiia Kosodii,Natalia Blok,Andrii Bondarenko,Maksym Kurochkin,Kateryna Penkova,Olha Matsiupa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350335936

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Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution by Natalka Vorozhbyt,Anastasiia Kosodii,Natalia Blok,Andrii Bondarenko,Maksym Kurochkin,Kateryna Penkova,Olha Matsiupa Pdf

Ukraine's remarkable aptitude for resilience and grassroots activism, as witnessed since February 2022, is closely connected to a process that began with the Euromaidan Revolution in 2013-14, when over two million Ukrainians took to the streets in defense of democracy and human rights. In the months directly following the Revolution, Russia illegally occupied Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, and began funneling both arms and troops into the eastern region of Donbas to fuel a conflict between the Ukrainian army and a small group of radical separatists. Since that time, Ukrainians have been working diligently to build the society in which they have wanted to live, all while fighting Russia and its proxies in Europe's forgotten war. Ukrainian New Drama After the Euromaidan Revolution brings together key works from the country's impressively generative post-Revolutionary period, many of them published here in English for the first time. As well as established voices from the European theatre repertoire such as Natalka Vorozhbyt and Maksym Kurochkin, this collection also features iconic plays from Ukraine's post-Maidan generation of playwrights Natalka Blok, Andrii Bondarenko, Anastsiia Kosodii, Lena Lagushonkova, Olha Matsiupa, and Kateryna Penkova. Considered together, these plays reflect the diversity of voices in Ukraine as a country seeking to comprehend both the personal and political consequences of the Revolution, the war, and all that has come since. A key element to the remarkable culture of defiance and resistance that Ukrainians created in these years has been new approaches to arts activism, particularly in the performing arts. In the eight years between Euromaidan and the full-scale invasion, Ukraine witnessed an incredible boom in socially engaged performance practice. Playwriting in particular has become an essential genre through which artists have sought to bear witness to the repercussions of the war and to create spaces for the reclaiming of historical and cultural narratives; Ukrainian New Drama After the Euromaidan Revolution captures this spirit and published this necessary and vital work in English for the very first time.

Author : Viktor Stepanenko,Yaroslav Pylynskyi
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 3034316267

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Ukraine After the Euromaidan by Viktor Stepanenko,Yaroslav Pylynskyi Pdf

The book, written by Ukrainian scholars, explores in interdisciplinary approach the revolutionary 2013-2014 Euromaidan and its social, political and cultural results. The contributors identify various factors of Ukraine's upheavals, explore their impact on the European and global politics and analyse the challenges of the reforms for the country.

Author : Alexander Bedritskiy,Alexey Kochetkov,Stanislav Byshok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5804107682

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Ukraine After Euromaidan by Alexander Bedritskiy,Alexey Kochetkov,Stanislav Byshok Pdf

Author : Mychailo Wynnyckyj
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838213279

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Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War by Mychailo Wynnyckyj Pdf

In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to organize, to act collectively, to become a civil society. Most prominently, they established a new Ukrainian identity: territorial, inclusive, and present-focused with powerful mobilizing symbols. Driven by an urban “bourgeoisie” that rejected the hierarchies of industrial society in favor of a post-modern heterarchy, a previously passive post-Soviet country experienced a profound social revolution that generated new senses: “Dignity” and “fairness” became rallying cries for millions. Europe as the symbolic target of political aspiration gradually faded, but the impact (including on Europe) of Ukraine’s revolution remained. When Russia invaded—illegally annexing Crimea and then feeding continuous military conflict in the Donbas—, Ukrainians responded with a massive volunteer effort and touching patriotism. In the process, they transformed their country, the region, and indeed the world. This book provides a chronicle of Ukraine’s Maidan and Russia’s ongoing war, and puts forth an analysis of the Revolution of Dignity from the perspective of a participant observer.

Author : Mychailo Wynnyckyj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 3838273001

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Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War by Mychailo Wynnyckyj Pdf

This book provides a chronicle of Ukraine's Maidan and Russia's ongoing war and puts forth an analysis of the Revolution of Dignity from the perspective of a participant observer.

Author : J.A.E. Curtis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350142480

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New Drama in Russian by J.A.E. Curtis Pdf

How and why does the stage, and those who perform upon it, play such a significant role in the social makeup of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? In New Drama in Russian, Julie Curtis brings together an international team of leading scholars and practitioners to tackle this complex question. New Drama, which draws heavily on techniques of documentary and verbatim writing, is a key means of protest in the Russian-speaking world; since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, theatres, dramatists, and critics have collaborated in using the genre as a lens through which to explore a wide range of topics from human rights and state oppression to sexuality and racism. Yet surprisingly little has been written on this important theatrical movement. New Drama in Russian rectifies this. Through providing analytical surveys of this outspoken transnational genre alongside case-studies of plays and interviews with playwrights, this volume sheds much-needed light on the key issues of performance, politics, and protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Meticulously researched and elegantly argued, this book will be of immense value to scholars of Russian cultural history and post-Soviet literary studies.

Author : Marci Shore
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300231533

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The Ukrainian Night by Marci Shore Pdf

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:913120199

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Ukraine's Euromaidan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Olga Bertelsen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838210162

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Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine by Olga Bertelsen Pdf

What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including information and religious wars; Ukrainian and Russian identities and cultural realignment; sources of destabilization in Ukraine and beyond; memory politics and Russian foreign policies; the Kremlin’s geopolitical goals in its 'near abroad'; and factors determining Ukraine’s future and survival in a state of war. The studies included in this collection illuminate the growing gap between the political and social systems of Ukraine and Russia. The anthology illustrates how the Ukrainian revolution of 2013–2014, Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and its invasion of eastern Ukraine have altered the post-Cold War political landscape and, with it, the regional and global power and security dynamics.

Author : Bohdan S. Kordan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773556164

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Strategic Friends by Bohdan S. Kordan Pdf

Since the end of the Soviet Union, Canada has played a leading role in the international response to Ukraine and to the challenges associated with its transition to independence. As Conservative and Liberal governments alike have sought to adapt foreign policy to contend with uncertainty and upheaval, the relationship between Canada and Ukraine has remained resilient. In Strategic Friends Bohdan Kordan examines the intersections between global developments and Canada's evolving foreign policy in light of national interests, domestic factors, and political agency. His historical-comparative narrative follows the post-Cold War aspirations and ambitions of the Mulroney, Chrétien, Martin, and Harper governments as they worked to minimize conflict, increase security, contextualize the independence movement, manage bilateral relations, and promote election monitoring, as well as defend liberal democracy and the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Consulting media reports, official speeches, statements, published government documents, and archives of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Kordan highlights both continuities and shifts in policy during the leadership of four prime ministers, and reveals the undercurrents of contemporary Canadian foreign affairs. Investigating the progression of the Canada–Ukraine relationship, Strategic Friends queries the dynamics that have shaped Canada's foreign policy response in an age of change.

Author : Goran Bolin,Per Stahlberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262374583

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Managing Meaning in Ukraine by Goran Bolin,Per Stahlberg Pdf

An in-depth look at Ukraine’s attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world. During times of crisis, competing narratives are often advanced to define what is happening, and the stakes of information management by nations are high. In this timely book, Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg examine the fraught intersection of state politics, corporate business, and civil activism to understand the dynamics and importance of meaning management in Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork inside the country, the authors discuss the forms, agents, and platforms within the complex political and communicative situation and how each articulated and acted upon perceptions of the propaganda threat. Bolin and Ståhlberg focus their analysis on the period between 2013 and 2022, when political tensions, commercial dynamics, and new communication technologies bred novel forms of information management. As they show, entities from governments and governmental administration to commercial actors, entrepreneurs, and activists formed new alliances in order to claim a stake in information policy. Bolin and Ståhlberg also explore how the various agents engaged in information management and strove to manage meaning in communication practice; the communicative tools they took advantage of; and the subsequent consequences for narrative constructions.

Author : Grzegorz Nycz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110752014

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Memory Politics in the Shadow of the New Cold War by Grzegorz Nycz Pdf

This book addresses memory politics and their evolution as an academic discipline, including memory studies. It explores national and international debates about conflicting interpretations of the recent past, including WWII remembering, the annexation of Ukraine, the reformed history teaching in Putin’s Russia, Historikerstreit and the holocaust in Germany, and the legacy and role of nuclear weapons in international relations in the USA in the context of the so called New Cold War.

Author : Christopher M. Smith
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815739258

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Ukraine's Revolt, Russia's Revenge by Christopher M. Smith Pdf

“This firsthand account of contemporary history is key to understanding Russia's latest assault on its neighbor."—USA Today An eyewitness account by a U.S. diplomat of Russia’s brazen attempt to undo the democratic revolution in Ukraine Told from the perspective of a U.S. diplomat in Kyiv, this book is the true story of Ukraine’s anti-corruption revolution in 2013—14, Russia’s intervention and invasion of that nation, and the limited role played by the United States. It puts into a readable narrative the previously unpublished reporting by seasoned U.S. diplomatic and military professionals, a wealth of information on Ukrainian high-level and street-level politics, a broad analysis of the international context, and vivid descriptions of people and places in Ukraine during the EuroMaidan Revolution. The book also counters Russia’s disinformation narratives about the revolution and America’s role in it. While focusing on a single country during a dramatic three-year period, the book’s universal themes—among them, truth versus lies, democracy versus autocracy—possess a broader urgency for our times. That urgency burns particularly hot for the United States and all other countries that are the targets of Russia's cyber warfare and other forms of political skullduggery. From his posting in U.S. Embassy Kyiv (2012–14), the author observed and reported first-hand on the EuroMaidan Revolution that wrested power from corrupt pro-Kremlin Ukrainian autocrat Viktor Yanukovych. The book also details Russia’s attempt to abort the Ukrainian revolution through threats, economic pressure, lies, and intimidation. When all of that failed, the Kremlin exacted revenge by annexing Ukraine's territory of Crimea and fomenting and sustaining a hybrid war in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 13,000 people and continues to this day. Ukraine's Revolt, Russia’s Revenge is based on the author’s own observations and the multitude of reports of his Embassy colleagues who were eyewitnesses to a crucial event in contemporary history.

Author : Marta Dyczok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1910814121

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Ukraine's Euromaidan by Marta Dyczok Pdf

How can you counteract an information war? This book brings together a series of English language reports on the Ukraine crisis first broadcast on Hromadske Radio between 3 February 2014 and 7 August 2015. Collected and transcribed here, they offer a kaleidoscopic chronicle of events in Ukraine as the Euromaidan crisis unfolded.

Author : Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472056521

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Communicating the Other Across Cultures by Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager Pdf

Exposes how we have constructed and marginalized the Other across cultures, and suggests creative global solutions for inclusive multiculturalism