Ukraine is a country with a great deal of history, which in turn is in some of the toughest upheavals modern Europe has seen. In the midst of this, the Ukrainians live their ordinary lives – some experience their first kiss, others sit in school and daydream, others go to work or take care of their old mother.
Life and history. Serhij Zjadan portrays i Anarchy in the UKR The life, thoughts and dreams of someone who grows up in the Soviet Union are youth when the union collapses and grow up when capitalism takes over. The book begins with the protagonist's journey to find out more about the former anarchist parts of Ukraine. He hikes around a post-Soviet Ukraine to investigate the history of the anarchist-ruled areas during the Russian Revolution, the so-called "free territories". In the areas where the anarchists held their elections and their direct democracy in the period 1918-1921, today pro-Russian rebels supported by Russian soldiers rule. The anarchists had to work on their freedom project for a while, until the forces in Moscow thought they could. . .
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