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electric_blue68

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60. Oh, he's Married to Marci Shore! She wrote the Book- The Ukrainian Night:
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 06:38 PM
Jul 2024

I accidentally saw it at my library. Being a 2nd Gen, half Ukrainian-American I borrowed it.

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https://reads.google.com

The Ukrainian Night
Yale University Press, Jan 9, 2018 - History - 320 pages
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential


What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices.

In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it.

She went to Ukraine to interview these people.

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Who is the "we" this unknown random blogger is talking to? PSPS Jul 2024 #1
Possibly MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2024 #3
I guess that says it all PSPS Jul 2024 #40
About Timothy Snyder jmbar2 Jul 2024 #5
Thanks Doc Sportello Jul 2024 #51
Thanks jmbar2 Jul 2024 #52
Timothy Snyder is no "random blogger." returnee Jul 2024 #7
If you're refering to Professor Timothy Snyder... electric_blue68 Jul 2024 #10
A history professor asm128 Jul 2024 #16
Not really. Snyder specializes in authoritarianism. yardwork Jul 2024 #20
Well, first of all with his academic credentials he's quite smart, and studying those dictators at the very... electric_blue68 Jul 2024 #59
This response didn't go the way you thought it would, did it? Cuthbert Allgood Jul 2024 #14
Biden has stated his position, but it clearly isn't "settled" given the number of Democrats who disagree. brooklynite Jul 2024 #19
None of those options are winnable MagickMuffin Jul 2024 #2
Then you are Option 1. jmbar2 Jul 2024 #6
Yes, it's still early for me so apologies MagickMuffin Jul 2024 #44
Well, that's a problem since Option 1 is to stay the course. yardwork Jul 2024 #21
See post 44 MagickMuffin Jul 2024 #45
... ancianita Jul 2024 #42
Where have I been Here, There and Everywhere MagickMuffin Jul 2024 #47
Well, please sit yourself down and do a bit of reading from the man who knows Russia and Ukraine better than anyone. ancianita Jul 2024 #49
One problem I see with #4, strong version returnee Jul 2024 #4
Good point - terrifying jmbar2 Jul 2024 #8
Johnson is crazy ... jpug Jul 2024 #9
Why is that? returnee Jul 2024 #12
Needed Analysis Kid Berwyn Jul 2024 #11
Kamala doesn't poll as well as Biden and she's the only option flamingdem Jul 2024 #13
I believe Snyder's point is that all of the choices have risks of failure jmbar2 Jul 2024 #17
I'm sure he has flamingdem Jul 2024 #32
Tim Snyder is not stupid. He's laying out the options he sees. yardwork Jul 2024 #22
He's not stupid. He's very smart. I highly recommend his book "The Road to Unfreedom" themaguffin Jul 2024 #23
I wish Trumpsters would read Snyder's books. yardwork Jul 2024 #53
I thought I saw a story yesterday maybe TexasDem69 Jul 2024 #31
The strong version of Operation Kamala changes her polling. Frasier Balzov Jul 2024 #54
There are only two options: Biden or Trump valleyrogue Jul 2024 #15
Agreed, we all go with Biden's decisions jmbar2 Jul 2024 #18
He's not saying that. FFS. themaguffin Jul 2024 #24
It doesn't matter what he says. THIS is the reality. valleyrogue Jul 2024 #26
No, none of us knows as fact, how each scenario plays out. NONE of us. Period. themaguffin Jul 2024 #27
To dump Biden is to nullify 14,000,000 primary voters -- 87% of the entire primary.Snyder forgets: Biden IS the nominee ancianita Jul 2024 #46
Seems like a good analysis of all possible options. brooklynite Jul 2024 #25
We have only one option that is popularly supported by the majority ... marble falls Jul 2024 #28
That's my preferred option. But each comes with risks jmbar2 Jul 2024 #29
Everything has it's risks, like changing horses in the middle of an election. The worst risk with re-electing ... marble falls Jul 2024 #37
Snyder's academic specialty is not US politics valleyrogue Jul 2024 #30
About Snyder jmbar2 Jul 2024 #38
I recall that Snyder came out against Biden after the debate flamingdem Jul 2024 #33
He did not come out against Biden jmbar2 Jul 2024 #41
I might have mixed him up with Lawrence Tribe flamingdem Jul 2024 #50
Don't forget... the incumbent wins 75% of the time tinrobot Jul 2024 #34
Snyder's academic background includes history, political science and a career focused on very relevant subject matter themaguffin Jul 2024 #35
What about the money? Alice B. Jul 2024 #36
Operations 1 and strong 4 are our best options LostOne4Ever Jul 2024 #39
Thank you jmbar2 Jul 2024 #43
There are no options. Not even at the Democratic Convention. Joe Biden IS the Democratic nominee. ancianita Jul 2024 #48
He's the presumptive nominee mellow Jul 2024 #56
Presumptive with 87% of the vote. ancianita Jul 2024 #57
Preventing Trump from demonizing would be the greatest benefit bucolic_frolic Jul 2024 #55
What I would want is a rigged (but not obviously rigged) 2 or 3 that ends with KH. lol ecstatic Jul 2024 #58
Oh, he's Married to Marci Shore! She wrote the Book- The Ukrainian Night: electric_blue68 Jul 2024 #60
Thanks - didn't know that she is also a writer jmbar2 Jul 2024 #61
YW 👍 electric_blue68 Jul 2024 #62
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