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The Ukrainian Night : An Intimate History of Revolution, Paperback / softback Book

The Ukrainian Night : An Intimate History of Revolution Paperback / softback

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A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential  “Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and chaos that was transmuted into the remarkable, seemingly transcendent solidarity of the Maidan’s unified resistance to a corrupt and cruel régime.”—Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy, McGill University   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.

The Maidan was an illumination of the human capacity for natality, the ability to act, to begin anew at this moment.

It was the turning point without which Ukrainian resistance to the full-scale Russian invasion cannot be understood.   In this lyrical and piercing book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian revolution.

Grounded in interviews with 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.

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