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Marci Shore , Yale University Professor.

Nonfiction about the events of 2014 in Ukraine: testimonies of participants
“It was the last European revolution, and it has not yet taken its rightful place in the general and social history of Europe.” This book is about the experience of that revolution, revealed through the stories of its participants. Among them is Katya Mishchenko, a Germanist and editor, who wrote the first sentence. In 2023, as I write these lines, the characters in my book find themselves in even more hellish conditions than anyone could have imagined in the winter of 2013-2014. This text will tell the stories of some of the book’s characters over the past decade, building a bridge between 2014 and 2023.
But what does it mean to build a bridge during war? War destroys bridges. It destroys borders. It paralyzes space and accelerates time, “shortening the distance,” as the Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk writes, “from person to person, from birth to death.”
War deprives language of nuance; and fresh blood imparts a heavy taste to words.
(c) Marci Shore . From the preface to the 2023 edition.

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