Ucraina – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it Libreria Genova libri inglesi spagnoli francesi tedeschi cinesi giapponesi piccolo principe books Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:57:07 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.globolibri.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LOGO-1-32x32.png Ucraina – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it 32 32 Chernobyl : History of a Tragedy https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/chernobyl-history-of-a-tragedy/ Sun, 13 Mar 2022 09:57:55 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=16659 On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, contaminating over half of Europe with radioactive fallout.

In Chernobyl, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws on recently opened archives to recreate these events in all their drama. A moment by moment account of the heroes, perpetrators and victims of a tragedy, Chernobyl is the first full account of a gripping, unforgettable Cold War story.

]]> Memory Crash : Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/arte-cultura-societa-storia-viaggi-in-inglese/memory-crash-politics-of-history-in-and-around-ukraine-1980s-2010s-9789633863800/ Sun, 13 Mar 2022 09:44:12 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=16657 This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians, and local governments. He identifies the main political purposes of these practices in the construction of nation and identity, struggles for power, warfare, and international relations.

Kasianov considers the Ukrainian case in the context of a global increase in the politics of history and memory, with particular emphasis on a distinctive East-European variety. He pays special attention to the use and abuse of history in relations between Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.

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