Black Earth: A Journey through Ukraine by Jens Muhling (English) Paperback Book

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Black Earth is a vivid first-hand account of an extensive journey through a contested nation.

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 An in-depth exploration of Ukraine through encounters with the many different people who live there."Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody." Mikhail Bulgakov composed this ominous and prophetic phrase in Kiev amid the turmoil of the Russian civil war. Since then, Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly, and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions. Ukraine has only existed as an independent state since 1991, and what exactly it was before then is controversial among its people as well as its European neighbors.In Black Earth: A Journey through the Ukraine, journalist and celebrated travel writer Jens Mühling takes readers across the country amid the ousting of former president Viktor Yanukovych and the Russian annexation of Crimea. Mühling delves deep into daily life in Ukraine, narrating his encounters with Ukrainian nationalists and old communists, Crimean Tatars and Cossacks, smugglers, and soldiers. Black Earth connects all these stories to convey an unconventional and unfiltered view of Ukraine, a country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and the center of countless conflicts.In this paperback edition, a new preface is included that takes into account recent developments up to the 2022 war between Russia and Ukraine.

Author Biography

Jens Muhling was the editor of a German newspaper in Moscow for two years, and has been working for the Berlin newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel, since 2005. His features and essays on Eastern Europe have won him several awards. He is the author of A Journey into Russia (2014) and Troubled Water: A Journey Around the Black Sea (2021).

Table of Contents

Preface xi1. A Finger on a Map 1Przemysl-Medyka2. The Ant Trail 11Medyka-Shehyni3. The Love Story of Inge and Bohdan 21Munich, 19594. The Love Story of SC-108 and SD-214 33Lviv5. In the Middle of Whatever 55Dilove-Rakhiv6. Dr. Stumpp Celebrates a Sad Christmas 77Berdychiv, 19417. Scrape Your Strings Darker 91Chernivtsi8. The Miracle of Kalynivka 105Vinnytsia-Kalynivka9. At Rabbi Nachman's Grave 121Uman10. Philip and the Thief 149Kiev11. A German Village 191Odessa-Dobroolexandrivka12. Revenge of the Scythians 211Simferopol-Sevastopol-Bakhchisaray13. A Handful of Acorns 241Kherson-Zaporizhia14. The Love Story ofKovyl and Tipchak 249Donetsk-Novoazovsk15. Friendship of Peoples Street 283MiloveAcknowledgements 293

Review

PRAISES FOR A JOURNEY INTO RUSSIA; 'There is a shock of discovery and a shot of pleasure on every page.' The Times; 'A compelling story of an author's journey into deepest Siberia in a quest to meet a woman determined to remain cut off from the outside world' Sunday Telegraph; 'A Journey Into Russia [...] takes Jens Muhling into Russia's riven terrain from Kiev and Moscow to St Petersburg and Siberia and on towards the people of the Steppes, unveiling individual tales of people surviving against the odds.' The Scotsman; '[Muhling] meets a bewildering variety of "old believers" in a broader sense, from members of the sectarian Orthodox Church..., through stubbornly Leninist former Soviet citizens, to newly minted Slavonic pagans. They all want to tell Muhling their life stories which, in his empathetic retelling, provide glimpses into other lives that are vivid and frequently moving.'TLS

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Details ISBN1914982002 Author Jens Muhling Pages 309 Publisher Haus Publishing Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1914982002 ISBN-13 9781914982002 Publication Date 2022-08-03 UK Release Date 2022-08-03 Format Paperback Imprint The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from German NZ Release Date 2022-08-03 Subtitle A Journey through Ukraine Illustrations 1 map DEWEY 914.770486 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-01-03 We've got this

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