Marci Shore - What is worth dying for? Maidan Showed what Ukrainians are Ready to Risk for Freedom. @SiliconCurtain

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Marci Shore asks the vital question:

What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. The Maidan was an illumination of the human capacity for natality, the ability to act, to begin anew at this moment. It was the turning point without which Ukrainian resistance to the full-scale Russian invasion cannot be understood.
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Marci Shore is an American professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Marci is author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, and of The Taste of Ashes, a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's Eastern Europe. But today we will be discussing her most recent book, about the Revolution of Dignity – The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution.
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yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300276831/the-ukrainian-night
ukrainianworldcongress.org/marci-shore-on-revolution-of-dignity
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BOOKS:
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The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution
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