In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature)
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In this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the residents of the industrial region of Donbas. For the first time, an inside account shows the toll on real human lives and civic freedoms that citizens continue to suffer in Russia's hybrid war on its territory.
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In this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the residents of the industrial region of Donbas. For the first time, an inside account shows the toll on real human lives and civic freedoms that citizens continue to suffer in Russia's hybrid war on its territory.
Title: In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature)
Author: Aseyev, Stanislav
ISBN: 9780674268791
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2022-01-04
Number of Pages: 400
Weight: 0.3801 kg
A rare and unsettling insider's account of conditions in the 'Donetsk People's Republic.'...Aseyev examines unrelentingly, piercingly, and scathingly why Ukrainians in the east of the country supported, and continue to support, the separatists and mercenaries and their Kremlin sponsors-in effect, how Putin's misinformation campaign successfully revived the Soviet mindset in the Donbas. -- Julian Evans * Times Literary Supplement *
[A] fascinating account of life in the [Donetsk People's Republic]...Aseyev's book is a kind of Lonely Planet guide to a republic that doesn't officially exist, except in the minds of its fervent believers...The DPR is a Soviet Disneyland. There are icons of Stalin and Lenin, Komsomol youth leagues and shops selling cheap Russian sausage in Back-in-the-USSR-style packaging. It is a glorious march forward to a largely imaginary past, although there is nothing make-believe about the violence in the DPR. -- Colin Freeman * The Telegraph *
Few people can better articulate the experience of life under Russian occupation than Stanislav Aseyev, [who] gives a first-person account of the shelling, propaganda, and internal power struggles of Donetsk in the early days of the war that began there in 2014. The brutality and arbitrariness of rule in Russian-occupied Donbas that Aseyev depicts hint at what would await Ukraine in the event of a Russian-imposed regime, underscoring why the stakes of the war today could not possibly be higher. -- Lilian Posner * Foreign Policy *
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