1909961604 
Hardback Black Earth : a journey through Ukraine / Jens Muhling.
Publication year: 2019
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : Haus Publishing,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781909961609
Notes:
Translated from the German.
Formerly CIP.
A vivid first-hand account of movement across a contested nation from }Der Tagesspiegel{ contributor. An in-depth exploration of Ukraine through encounters with the many different people who live there. "Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody." Mikhail Bulgakov composed this ominous and prophetic phrase in Kiev amid the turmoil of the Russian civil war. Since then, Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly, and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions. Ukraine has only existed as an independent state since 1991, and what exactly it was before then is controversial among its people as well as its European neighbors. InBlack Earth: A Journey through the Ukraine, journalist and celebrated travel writer Jens Mhling takes readers across the country amid the ousting of former president Viktor Yanukovych and the Russian annexation of Crimea. Mhling delves deep into daily life in Ukraine, narrating his encounters with Ukrainian nationalists and old commu
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xiii, 295 pages : map ; 23 cm
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