Ukrainian Voices

This book details how Russia’s February 2022 open invasion of Ukraine has led to the biggest military conflagration and refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

Serhy Yekelchyk analyzes the development of Ukrainian history writing from the fall of communism to the early responses to Russia’s massive invasion in 2022.

When this book was written, it was the story of one death among many in the war in Eastern Ukraine. After February 24, 2022, it became the story of a country under severe attack.

The book explores the realtions of history, legitimacy, and violence in the building and breaking of nations and states on the territory of contemporary Ukraine.

The book provides a tableau of the emblematic figures of the war in the Donbas. It not only presents tragedies, but also human moments and noble deeds.

Khromeychuk bringt ihrer Leserschaft die Ereignisse dieses nun noch brutaler geführten Krieges im Herzen Europas und die private Erfahrung des Krieges näher.

Anastasia Lysyvets’s memoir is one of the most powerful testimonies of a victim of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine.

In Augenzeugenberichten erfahren wir von Ukrainern, die in unterschiedlichen Armeen als Soldat rekrutiert wurden, von Deportierten, von Zwangsarbeitslagern.

Der 2017 im okkupierten Donezk verhaftete Journalist Stanislav Aseyev berichtet offen, tiefgründig und emotional von Leid, das im heutigen Europa unvorstellbar scheint.

The poet’s son and literary scholar Dmytro Stus masterfully combines a cultural and biographical study with private recollections and observations of his father.