The 20th of February is full of significance for Ukraine, and this post looks at new library material about the events it recalls.

February 2014 saw the culmination of the Euromaidan protests in the Revolution of Dignity and also the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War.   The 20th specifically saw both the greatest loss of life in Kyïv during the Revolution with over 20 protestors killed by the security services and also the start of Russia’s armed invasion of Crimea which would soon be followed by the outbreak of war in the east of Ukraine.  With the second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine coming this Saturday, it would be easy to roll the anniversaries together but it’s important to acknowledge separately the events of 2014 and contemplate the fact of a decade of war, occupation, and lost lives.

More and more publications about Ukraine and the Russo-Ukrainian War are collected by Cambridge, and here are some books published over the last year that are now in our collections.

Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity

• Euromaidan Revolution : selected photographs / by Mark Estabrook.  This contains 600 photographs taken between 7 and 18 February 2014.
• The Maidan Museum : preserving the spirit of Maidan : art, identity, and the Revolution of Dignity / Giovanni Ercolani ; with a foreword by Chris Farrands.
• Without the state : self-organization and political activism in Ukraine / Emily Channell-Justice.
• It’s worth mentioning v. 65/3-4 (2023) of the journal Canadian Slavonic Papers which featured a special section named ‘Ukraine’s Euromaidan and Revolution of Dignity’ marking 10 years since the start of the protests.
• for more books on iDiscover, follow this link.

The 2014- Russo-Ukrainian War before the 2022 full-scale invasion (including the illegal annexation of Crimea)

• Die Ukraine : Kampf um Unabhängigkeit : Geschichte und Gegenwart / Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.).
• Everyday war : the conflict over Donbas, Ukraine / Greta Lynn Uehling.
• Ponad z︠h︡ytti︠a︡ / I︠U︡lii︠a︡ Strelʹt︠s︡ova, Serhiĭ Bashkov.
• Post-Euromaidan Ukraine : domestic power struggles and war of national survival in 2014-2022 / Bohdan Harasymiw.
• Shreds of war. Vol. 2, Fates from Crimea 2015-2022 / Ildi Eperjesi & Oleksandr Kachura ; with an interview of Oleh Sentsov.  [“Volume 1” was the 2021 title Shreds of war : fates from the Donbas frontline, 2014-2019 / Ildikó Eperjesi, Oleksandr Kachura.]
• Smertʹ soldata : istorii︠a︡, rozkazana ĭoho sestroi︠u︡ / Olesi︠a︡ Khromeĭchuk. (Olesya Khromeychuk’s translation into Ukrainian of her The death of a soldier told by his sister.)
• Ukraine’s unnamed war : before the Russian invasion of 2022 / Dominique Arel, Jesse Driscoll.
• Viĭna : vohonʹ zapeklykh ne peche : 2014 – 2021 roky / Halyna Horyt︠s︡ʹka.
• for more, follow this link to search results in iDiscover

Mel Bach