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I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraine

Name: I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraine
Brand: Northwestern University Press
SKU: 9780810148543
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Contributors:

Oleksandr Mykhed, Tanya Savchynska (Translator), David Mossop (Translator)

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Literary Collections, History, Travel

Book Subcategory:

European, Europe, Essays & Travelogues

Book Topic:

Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet), Ukraine

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Release Date:

2025-04-15

ISBN 13:

9780810148543

Weight:

1 lbs

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Pages:

344

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Exploring 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.

About the Author

OLEKSANDR MYKHED is the author of ten books and a member of PEN Ukraine. He has written for publications including The Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and The Guardian. Mykhed is currently serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

TANYA SAVCHYNSKA is a literary translator whose writing and translations have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Apofenie, and elsewhere.

DAVID MOSSOP is a professor of linguistics who translates from several Slavic languages into English. He was awarded an outstanding achievement award by the Bulgarian Translators' Union in 2022.

I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraine

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