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.

She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it-and the future as they hope to make it. 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. taking decisions they never could have imagined of themselves a few months earlier, writes Marci Shore near the start of her strikingly innovative The Ukrainian Night, which she wrote prompted by her sense of how little. she gently sets her portrait of individual. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shores book blends a narrative of suspensful choices wih a historians reflections on what revolution is and what it means. Yale University Press, 2018, 320 pages, 26. in this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available NowĪ 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.Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens.

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