I Will Mix Your Blood With Coal. Understanding Ukrainian East
by Oleksandr Mykhed
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In 2014, the Russian army, with support from local militants, had occupied parts of Ukraine’s two easternmost regions, the regions that were the beating industrial heart of the socialist utopia in the Soviet era, and where coal extraction has exhausted both the human population and the natural resources. The regions have suffered from the post-Soviet chaos for decades. In the late 2016, the author set out on a research trip to the East to answer the common questions of those who’ve never been to the region. He takes his readers on a complicated, painful and hopeful trip across the Ukrainian East, guiding them through conversations with the locals, archival research, and conversations with prominent cultural fi gures like writer Serhij Zhadan or released after 700 days of terrorist captivity historian Ihor Kozlovskyi that were born in the region. The readers will meet the miners, the Belgian and British investors who founded the eastern cities, the priceless coal, events of the First and Second World War, the bloody Soviet history, the activists who are now working to improve the country, and sweet memories of the lost paradise.
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Author Biography
Oleksandr Mykhed is a writer and curator of art projects. He lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is the author of 7 books. Selected essays and excerpts from his books have been translated into 10 languages. He translated Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramović into Ukrainian (2018), which was shortlisted for the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Prize. His highly acclaimed nonfiction book, I Will Mix Your Blood With Coal (Nash Format, 2020), an exploration of the Donbas and Ukrainian East, has been published in German (Ibidem, 2022) and is forthcoming in Polish. Oleksandr has participated in literary residencies in Finland, Latvia, Iceland, the USA, and France. He is a member of PEN Ukraine.
History of Ukraine
Different periods of the history of Ukraine and Ukrainian lands are covered
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- Publisher Nash Format Publishers
- Publication Date 2020
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786177866335
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages368
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleЯ змішаю твою кров із вугіллям
- Original Language AuthorsМихед Олександр
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