Andrii Portnov – författare

Der Band bietet die erste umfassende Einführung in die Ukraine-Studien in deutscher Sprache. Er behandelt Geschichte und Gegenwart der Ukraine in vergleichender Perspektive. Anschaulich und verständlich wird in die wichtigsten Probleme der ukrainischen Geschichte und Politik sowie in Literaturen, Medien, Sprachen und konfessionelle Fragen eingeführt. Das Buch ist eine Synthese der internationalen Forschung, aber auch das Ergebnis der eigenen Forschungs- und Lehrerfahrung des Autors in ganz Europa. Es richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende der Ukraine- und Osteuropastudien, der Slawistik sowie an Journalist:innen, Politiker:innen und alle am östlichen Europa Interessierten.

Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern Eurasia

This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’ and ‘the heart of Ukraine’) is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.

Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern Eurasia

This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’ and ‘the heart of Ukraine’) is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.