Kyiv Ukraine : : the city of domes and demons from the collapse of socialism to the mass uprising of 2013-2014 / / Roman Adrian Cybriwsky.

• VerfasserIn: Cybriwsky, Roman A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Revised edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jan 2021).

The unrest and violence in Ukraine in recent years shocked the world, and the region's long-term future remains troublingly uncertain. Focusing on the difficulty of Kiev's transition from socialism to market democracy, this book demonstrates how Ukraine reached this turbulent point. Roman Adrian Cybriwsky delves deeply into the changing social geography of the city, recent urban development, and critical problems such as official corruption, inequality, sex tourism, and the heedless destruction of the city's historical architecture - all difficulties that have contributed incrementally to Ukrainian citizens' anger against their government. This thoroughly revised edition brings Cybriwsky's account of events and their ramifications fully up to date, offering the clearest picture we've had yet of what has happened - and what is likely still to come - in Ukraine.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- A Note about Transliteration -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1. Far from Heaven -- 2. The Missing Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv -- 3. Sketches from the Capital -- 4. Soviet Ways, Post-Soviet Days -- 5. Historical Memory -- 6. The Center of Kyiv -- 7. A Geography of Privilege and Pretension -- 8. Landscapes of Struggle -- 9. "Suburbia" -- 10. Seamy Stories -- 11. The Defenders of Kyiv -- 12. Reflections -- 13. Two Years Later -- References -- Index