Ukraine (Karl Schlögel)

In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europes borderland and in Russias shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the political conundrum resulting from Russias actions and the ongoing Information War. As well as exploring this confrontation, Schlögel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraines major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Yalta cities whose often troubled and war-torn histories are as varied as the nationalities and cultures which have made them what they are today, survivors with very particular identities and aspirations. Schlögel feels the pulse of life in these cities, analysing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future.

Karl Schlögel, geboren 1948, hat an der Freien Universität Berlin, in Moskau und Sankt Petersburg Philosophie, Soziologie, Osteuropäische Geschichte und Slawistik studiert. Er war bis 2013 Professor für Osteuropäische Geschichte an der Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. 1990 erhielt er den Europäischen Essaypreis Charles Villon, 1999 den Anna-Krüger-Preis des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin sowie 2005 den Hamburger Lessing-Preis. 2018 wurde er in die Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung gewählt.

Buch (Paperback), Englisch, 288 Seiten