Ukraine's sudden prominence in American politics has compounded an already-widespread misunderstanding of what is actually happening in the nation. In the American media, Ukraine has come to signify an inherently corrupt place,...
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Author:Yekelchyk, SerhySummary: - Author:Yekelchyk, SerhySummary:
In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's...
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Author:Braun, ConnieSummary:The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir invites the reader to embark on a journey that traces the paths of ancestral memory over the steppes of the Russian empire to the valleys of Canada’s Fraser River. Connie Braun’s...
- Author:Martynowych, Orest T.Summary:
A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of...
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Author:Birdsell, SandraSummary: - Author:Snyder, TimothySummary:
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then...
- Author:Shyba, Volodymyr, Matwijszuk, MykolaSummary:
Publisher proceeds from the book go to humanitarian aid for Ukrainian people displaced by Russian aggression. The Little Book was originally published in 1932 and made a vital contribution to the curriculum for Canadian-Ukrainian...
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Author:Applebaum, AnneSummary:From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes-the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched...
- Author:Lyseno, AdrianSummary:
In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding and summarily killed, Nadia and Taras...
- Author:Shyba, Maddy, Illichov, OlyaSummary:
Olya and Olena Escape the Invaders is about two young Ukrainian ballet students who escape the Russian invasion of Mariupol and embark on a difficult journey to safety. Along the way, they encounter helpers who aid them on their way,...
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Author:Dueck, AdeleSummary:When Lisa asks her grandmother, Nettie Pauls, about her life before she came to Canada, Grandmother Nettie hands her her old diary that tells an amazing tale of survival during a time of war, famine, and terror.
- Author:Enright, RobertSummary:
After his one man war on crime takes him to the depths of the Ukrainian underworld, Sam Pope is accosted by an elite United States military outfit known as Blackridge. Under the threat of incarceration for his crimes, Sam agrees to join...
- Author:Vinet, Jean-FrançoisSummary:
Qui n'a jamais rêvé de changer le monde? Edgar Malik, un jeune prodige de Harvard, y songe depuis toujours. Mais lorsqu'il se rend à l'une des usines de l'importante multinationale qu'il dirige, il découvre...
- Author:Lavoie, Frédérick, Winkler, DonaldSummary:
How can a country at peace suddenly be plunged into war? What compels hitherto peaceable citizens to take up arms and kill one another? In For Want of a Fir Tree: Ukraine Undone, Frédérick Lavoie tells Artyom, a four-year-old child he...
- Author:Lysenko, AdrianSummary:
In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding and summarily killed, Nadia and Taras...
- Author:Byron, RobertSummary:
Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror...
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Author:Foer, Jonathan SafranSummary:Jonathan is a Jewish college student searching Europe for the one person he believes can explain his roots. Alex, a lover of all things American and unsurpassed butcher of the English language, is his lovable Ukrainian guide. On their...
- Author:Skrypuch, Marsha ForchukSummary:
A gripping story based on true events. During the Soviet occupation of Ukraine during World War II, some of Krystia's family are harrassed; others are arrested and killed. When the Nazis liberate the town, they are welcomed with open...
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Author:Mierau, MauriceSummary:In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of delays while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to Canada as a proud new family of four. Now what...
- Author:Morrison, DougSummary:
Back in Canada after a harrowing vacation gone wrong, Michael Barrett tries to put all thought of Ukraine and his mysterious captor turned friend, Dmitri, from his mind. This would be a little easier to do if a million dollars had not...
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