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The Donbas in 2017: Three Variations on a Theme

© 2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. From the Editors ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. The Lost Generation of the “Fabled Novorossiia” 1
  6. How I Became a Shadow in My Own Land 10
  7. Who Has Joined the DPR Militants and What Are They Fighting for? 14
  8. Executed as an “Enemy of the People” of the DPR 22
  9. The Checkpoint: “I’m Alive because of the War” 28
  10. How to Defeat the DPR 35
  11. Young People in the DPR and the LPR: What Does the Future Hold? 39
  12. The Donetsk “Uprising” a Year Later: The Future of an Illusion 46
  13. An Excuse to Pull the Trigger 52
  14. The Voice of the Donbas: How Five Thousand Victims Are “Heard” 56
  15. Chronicle of Decline and Fall: The Donetsk Oblast State Administration Building 61
  16. Grenades Aren’t a Big Deal Anymore: Everyday Tragedies in Makiїvka 69
  17. Why They Like “Tsars” in the Donbas 74
  18. What is Ukraine to Me? The View from Makiїvka 78
  19. A Letter to the Russians 83
  20. Who Lives off the Residents of Occupied Donbas? 87
  21. The “Esperanto” of Vladimir Putin 93
  22. A Letter to My Country 97
  23. The Half-life of the Sovok 101
  24. Irreconcilable Differences 108
  25. A Few Fairytales about the DPR 111
  26. Donbas: Seven Hundred Days of Solitude 115
  27. What Comes Next? 126
  28. Lower Than Rock Bottom 130
  29. Cultural Life under Occupation: The City of Donetsk 133
  30. Citizens without Citizenship 136
  31. Homo Donbasus, or The Changes Brought by the War 142
  32. About Easter… and More 149
  33. Chaos in Their Heads: How the War Is Perceived in the Occupied Zone 153
  34. What Pygmalion Left Unsaid 157
  35. Evening Strolls through an Empty City 162
  36. Quid Prodest? 166
  37. The “Remainers”: The Undiscovered Bosch of the DPR 174
  38. Screeching in the Thorns 183
  39. “Primaries” under the Occupation 190
  40. Propaganda on the Streets of Donetsk 193
  41. Occupation as It Is: Khartsyzk 195
  42. That Sweet Word, “War” 197
  43. Where the Elite of Occupied Donetsk Take Their Leisure 202
  44. Donetsk: A Tour of Expropriated Places 205
  45. Immersed in War 207
  46. The Donbas in 2017: Three Variations on a Theme 213
  47. The DPR and Religion 224
  48. How the Militants Prepare Children to Join Their Military Organizations 227
  49. “I Fought in the War”: Life after Leaving the DPR Militia 230
  50. Back in the USSR: Soviet Themes in Donetsk Eateries 232
  51. “Looking for a Tusk to Buy”: Ads in Occupied Donetsk 235
  52. Following the Path of Crimea? 238
  53. Us and Them 247
  54. A Knack for Losing Things 251
  55. Notes 257
  56. Illustration Credits 291
In Isolation
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https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674268807-044

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. From the Editors ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. The Lost Generation of the “Fabled Novorossiia” 1
  6. How I Became a Shadow in My Own Land 10
  7. Who Has Joined the DPR Militants and What Are They Fighting for? 14
  8. Executed as an “Enemy of the People” of the DPR 22
  9. The Checkpoint: “I’m Alive because of the War” 28
  10. How to Defeat the DPR 35
  11. Young People in the DPR and the LPR: What Does the Future Hold? 39
  12. The Donetsk “Uprising” a Year Later: The Future of an Illusion 46
  13. An Excuse to Pull the Trigger 52
  14. The Voice of the Donbas: How Five Thousand Victims Are “Heard” 56
  15. Chronicle of Decline and Fall: The Donetsk Oblast State Administration Building 61
  16. Grenades Aren’t a Big Deal Anymore: Everyday Tragedies in Makiїvka 69
  17. Why They Like “Tsars” in the Donbas 74
  18. What is Ukraine to Me? The View from Makiїvka 78
  19. A Letter to the Russians 83
  20. Who Lives off the Residents of Occupied Donbas? 87
  21. The “Esperanto” of Vladimir Putin 93
  22. A Letter to My Country 97
  23. The Half-life of the Sovok 101
  24. Irreconcilable Differences 108
  25. A Few Fairytales about the DPR 111
  26. Donbas: Seven Hundred Days of Solitude 115
  27. What Comes Next? 126
  28. Lower Than Rock Bottom 130
  29. Cultural Life under Occupation: The City of Donetsk 133
  30. Citizens without Citizenship 136
  31. Homo Donbasus, or The Changes Brought by the War 142
  32. About Easter… and More 149
  33. Chaos in Their Heads: How the War Is Perceived in the Occupied Zone 153
  34. What Pygmalion Left Unsaid 157
  35. Evening Strolls through an Empty City 162
  36. Quid Prodest? 166
  37. The “Remainers”: The Undiscovered Bosch of the DPR 174
  38. Screeching in the Thorns 183
  39. “Primaries” under the Occupation 190
  40. Propaganda on the Streets of Donetsk 193
  41. Occupation as It Is: Khartsyzk 195
  42. That Sweet Word, “War” 197
  43. Where the Elite of Occupied Donetsk Take Their Leisure 202
  44. Donetsk: A Tour of Expropriated Places 205
  45. Immersed in War 207
  46. The Donbas in 2017: Three Variations on a Theme 213
  47. The DPR and Religion 224
  48. How the Militants Prepare Children to Join Their Military Organizations 227
  49. “I Fought in the War”: Life after Leaving the DPR Militia 230
  50. Back in the USSR: Soviet Themes in Donetsk Eateries 232
  51. “Looking for a Tusk to Buy”: Ads in Occupied Donetsk 235
  52. Following the Path of Crimea? 238
  53. Us and Them 247
  54. A Knack for Losing Things 251
  55. Notes 257
  56. Illustration Credits 291
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