In Isolation : : Dispatches from Occupied Donbas / / Stanislav Aseyev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Aseyev, Stanislav,
• MitwirkendeR: Wolanskyj, Lidia,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard library of Ukrainian literature ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiïvka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate environment and questions himself in an attempt to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the working-class residents of the industrial region of Donbas. In this work of documentary prose, Aseyev focuses on the early period of the Russian-sponsored military aggression in Ukraine’s east, the period of 2015–2017. The author’s testimony ends with his arrest for publishing his dispatches and his subsequent imprisonment and torture in a modern-day concentration camp on the outskirts of Donetsk run by lawless mercenaries and local militants with the tacit approval and support of Moscow. For the first time, an inside account is presented here of the toll on real human lives and civic freedoms that the citizens of Europe’s largest country continue to suffer in Russia’s hybrid war on its territory.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- From the Editors -- Preface -- The Lost Generation of the “Fabled Novorossiia” -- How I Became a Shadow in My Own Land -- Who Has Joined the DPR Militants and What Are They Fighting for? -- Executed as an “Enemy of the People” of the DPR -- The Checkpoint: “I’m Alive because of the War” -- How to Defeat the DPR -- Young People in the DPR and the LPR: What Does the Future Hold? -- The Donetsk “Uprising” a Year Later: The Future of an Illusion -- An Excuse to Pull the Trigger -- The Voice of the Donbas: How Five Thousand Victims Are “Heard” -- Chronicle of Decline and Fall: The Donetsk Oblast State Administration Building -- Grenades Aren’t a Big Deal Anymore: Everyday Tragedies in Makiїvka -- Why They Like “Tsars” in the Donbas -- What is Ukraine to Me? The View from Makiїvka -- A Letter to the Russians -- Who Lives off the Residents of Occupied Donbas? -- The “Esperanto” of Vladimir Putin -- A Letter to My Country -- The Half-life of the Sovok -- Irreconcilable Differences -- A Few Fairytales about the DPR -- Donbas: Seven Hundred Days of Solitude -- What Comes Next? -- Lower Than Rock Bottom -- Cultural Life under Occupation: The City of Donetsk -- Citizens without Citizenship -- Homo Donbasus, or The Changes Brought by the War -- About Easter… and More -- Chaos in Their Heads: How the War Is Perceived in the Occupied Zone -- What Pygmalion Left Unsaid -- Evening Strolls through an Empty City -- Quid Prodest? -- The “Remainers”: The Undiscovered Bosch of the DPR -- Screeching in the Thorns -- “Primaries” under the Occupation -- Propaganda on the Streets of Donetsk -- Occupation as It Is: Khartsyzk -- That Sweet Word, “War” -- Where the Elite of Occupied Donetsk Take Their Leisure -- Donetsk: A Tour of Expropriated Places -- Immersed in War -- The Donbas in 2017: Three Variations on a Theme -- The DPR and Religion -- How the Militants Prepare Children to Join Their Military Organizations -- “I Fought in the War”: Life after Leaving the DPR Militia -- Back in the USSR: Soviet Themes in Donetsk Eateries -- “Looking for a Tusk to Buy”: Ads in Occupied Donetsk -- Following the Path of Crimea? -- Us and Them -- A Knack for Losing Things -- Notes -- Illustration Credits