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Russia and Ukraine
eBook - Entangled Histories, Diverging States
ISBN/EAN: 9781509557387
Umbreit-Nr.: 1418657
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 288 S., 1.09 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 08.11.2023
Auflage: 1/2023
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to defend their country. What are the roots of this war, which has upended the international legal order and brought back the spectre of nuclear escalation? How did these supposedly brotherly peoples become each others worst nightmare?</p><p>In<i>Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States</i>, Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel explain how since 1991 Russia and Ukraine diverged politically, ending up on a collision course. Russia slid back into authoritarianism and imperialism, while Ukraine consolidated a competitive political system and pro-European identity. As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an anti-Russia project. After political and economic pressure proved ineffective, and even counterproductive, Putin went to war to force Ukraine back into the fold of the Russian world. Ukraine resisted, determined to pursue European integration as a sovereign state. These irreconcilable goals, rather than geopolitical wrangling between Russia and the West over NATO expansion, are the authors argue essential to understanding Russias war on Ukraine.</p>
- Kurztext
- Four ground-breaking plays that explore the complex relationship between England and India over more than a century, weaving together personal and political narratives.The Waiting Room: Priya Banerjee is dead, but her life is far from over. She has just three days left to roam the earth before she can go on to the 'Waiting Room' of spirits. As she reluctantly watches and listens to her family, Priya is guided by a droll and increasingly impatient immortal soul in the guise of her Bollywood idol, Dilip Kumar.Great Expectations: Relocating Pip's extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens' most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens' language a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece.The Empress: It is the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani and Abdul step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class citizen, the other forges an astonishing entanglement with the ageing Queen who finds herself enchanted by stories of an India she rules but has never seen.Lions and Tigers: Based on the true story of Tanika Gupta's great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, the play charts the Dinesh's emotional and political awakening as this extraordinary 19-year-old pits himself against the British Raj. Winner of the James Tait Black Award in 2018.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>Maria Popova</b> is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University.</p><p><b>Oxana Shevel</b> is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.</p>