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PublisherNorthwestern University Press
ISBN-100810148544
ISBN-139780810148543
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Book TitleI Will Mix Your Blood with Coal : Snapshots from the East of Ukraine
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicEurope / Eastern, Essays & Travelogues, European / Eastern (See Also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
GenreTravel, Literary Collections, History
AuthorOleksandr Mykhed
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width7.3 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-059252
Reviews"Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, known collectively as the Donbas, have been major talking points since the start of Russia's war. With Oleksandr Mykhed's I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal, outside observers will have a chance to actually understand these regions from a cultural, people-oriented perspective. This vital book adds essential cultural context, and, sadly, deepens the sense of tragedy surrounding the ongoing war." --Kate Tsurkan, The Kyiv Independent "Oleksandr Mykhed's book is a tour de force of polyphonic reportage and essay. His voice is witty, wise, and empathetic. He approaches his subject matter--the Ukrainian east, at this moment one of the most important and most misunderstood places on the planet--with a rare combination of deep love and unflinching objectivity." --Uilleam Blacker, University College London "This book is about a region which still remains largely obscure and misunderstood. Ukrainian Donbas, a land fading away in time and space, amid history and politics, amid war and reconstruction, is revealed in this book in an unexpected and poignant way. The voices and figures, cities and landscapes represented here portray the Ukrainian East as a place filled not only with trauma, stereotypes, and enforced silence but also with faith, strength, and hope." --Serhiy Zhadan, writer, "Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, known collectively as the Donbas, have been major talking points since the start of Russia's war. With Oleksandr Mykhed's I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal, outside observers will have a chance to actually understand these regions from a cultural, people-oriented perspective. This vital book adds essential cultural context, and, sadly, deepens the sense of tragedy surrounding the ongoing war." --Kate Tsurkan, The Kyiv Independent, "Oleksandr Mykhed's book is a tour de force of polyphonic reportage and essay. His voice is witty, wise, and empathetic. He approaches his subject matter--the Ukrainian east, at this moment one of the most important and most misunderstood places on the planet--with a rare combination of deep love and unflinching objectivity." --Uilleam Blacker, University College London, "Drawing from archives and interviews with miners and activists, Mykhed tells the human story of the Donbas." -- New York Times Book Review "Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, known collectively as the Donbas, have been major talking points since the start of Russia's war. With Oleksandr Mykhed's I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal, outside observers will have a chance to actually understand these regions from a cultural, people-oriented perspective. This vital book adds essential cultural context, and, sadly, deepens the sense of tragedy surrounding the ongoing war." --Kate Tsurkan, The Kyiv Independent "Oleksandr Mykhed's book is a tour de force of polyphonic reportage and essay. His voice is witty, wise, and empathetic. He approaches his subject matter--the Ukrainian east, at this moment one of the most important and most misunderstood places on the planet--with a rare combination of deep love and unflinching objectivity." --Uilleam Blacker, University College London "This book is about a region which still remains largely obscure and misunderstood. Ukrainian Donbas, a land fading away in time and space, amid history and politics, amid war and reconstruction, is revealed in this book in an unexpected and poignant way. The voices and figures, cities and landscapes represented here portray the Ukrainian East as a place filled not only with trauma, stereotypes, and enforced silence but also with faith, strength, and hope." --Serhiy Zhadan, writer
Table Of ContentIntro I. Kostiantynivka. 1. Pokrovsk. 1. Dobropillia. 1. Lysychansk. 1. Sievierodonetsk. 1. Bakhmut. 1. Three Fountains and Two and a Half Exhibitions Ihor Kozlovsky : "Regional myths were fitted like costumes that were supposed to conceal the lack of ideas and generate a mythical reality." Kostiantynivka. 2. Kyiv. 1. II. Kostiantynivka. 3. Bakhmut. 2. Alevtina Kakhidze : "When I'm introduced with 'Here's a Donbas artist,' I have the urge to say, 'Hello, as you can see, I don't have horns.'" Pokrovsk. 2. Dobropillia. 2. Chthonic Shubin and Holy Barbara Pokrovsk. 3. Roman Minin : "The main point of pride of the residents of the Donetsk region is their ability to survive." Kyiv. 2. Bakhmut. 3. Lysychansk. 2. The War, the Welsh, and the "Wild Fields" Startup Serhiy Zhadan : "If we don't want to separate off the east, we need to get to know it" Lysychansk. 3. Sievierodonetsk. 2. The Miners' Tribe and the Truth of Literature Kyiv. 3. III. Lysychansk. 4. Bakhmut. 4. Pokrovsk. 4. Olena Stiazhkina : "The Gulag was no longer needed. Camps were pointless because the camp was embedded within me." Sievierodonetsk. 3. Pokrovsk. 5. Kostiantynivka. 4. Dobropillia. 3. Kyiv. 4. Volodymyr Rafeyenko : "It's important to understand that it wasn't regional peculiarities that caused this war, and it wasn't the Ukrainians who brought it on." The Romanivka Farmstead The East The Return Outro Afterword to an Invasion Bibliography
SynopsisExploring the post-Soviet landscape of the Ukrainian east in a complex journey of loss, hope, and history In 2014, the Russian army, with support from local militants, occupied parts of Ukraine's two easternmost regions--once the beating industrial heart of the Soviet Union--where coal extraction has since exhausted both the human population and the natural resources. In late 2016, Oleksandr Mykhed set out on a research trip to explore the deep history and contested present of the area from the perspective of a fellow countryman who'd never been there. Mykhed brings us on a painful yet hopeful journey across the Ukrainian east, sharing conversations with locals, snippets from archival documents, and the complicated perspectives of prominent cultural figures, such as writer Serhiy Zhadan, historian Olena Stiazhkina, and philosopher Ihor Kozlovsky, who was imprisoned and tortured for nearly two years. I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal invites us to meet generations of coal miners. To learn about the Belgian and British investors who founded the east's industrial cities. To remember the harrowing events of the First and Second World Wars and the incalculable brutality of Soviet history. To see the activists who are even now working to improve the country. To hear sweet memories of a lost utopia that never existed. Mykhed provides a unique portrait of life in the east during the war, before the full-scale invasion that would change everything., In 2016, Oleksandr Mykhed set out on a research the deep history and contested present of Ukraine's easternmost regions, once the beating heart of the Soviet Union and newly occupied by the Russian army with support from local militants. He brings us on a painful yet hopeful journey, sharing conversations with locals, snippets from archival documents, and the complicated perspectives of prominent cultural figures. I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal invites us to meet generations of coal miners. To learn about the Belgian and British investors who founded the east's industrial cities. To remember the harrowing events of the First and Second World Wars and the incalculable brutality of Soviet history. To see the activists who are even now working to improve the country. To hear sweet memories of a lost utopia that never existed. Mykhed provides a unique portrait of life in the east before the full-scale invasion that would change everything., A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraine explores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country's easternmost regions.
LC Classification NumberDK508.9.D66M9513
