Kyiv, Ukraine

Samenvatting

Preface and Acknowledgments[-]1. Far from Heaven[-]1.1 A Curious Face[-]1.2 Graffito[-]1.3 A New American[-]1.4 Domes and Demons[-]1.5 A Changing City[-]1.6 Angry Citizens[-]1.7 Linking to the Literature[-]1.8 Postsocialist Urbanism[-]2. The Missing Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv[-]2.1 Life in Limbo[-]2.2 An Imperium of Raiders[-]2.3 Theater at Teatralna[-]2.4 A Dubious Home[-]3. Sketches from the Capital[-]3.1 Castle Hill[-]3.2 Notes from Euro 2012[-]3.3 Monumental Woes[-]3.4 Demons at Desiatynna[-]3.5 The Ukrainian Fight Club[-]3.6 A Missing Mayor[-]3.7 A Geography of the President[-]3.8 Helipad from Hell[-]4. Soviet Ways, Post-Soviet Days[-]4.1 Looking after Lenin[-]4.2 Red Army Birthday[-]4.3 One Day in the Life of the Ukrainian Language [-]4.4 May 18, 2013[-]4.5 Heorhiy Ruslanovych ... Gongadze [-]4.6 A Personal Warning?[-]5. Historical Memory[-]Place Name Gymnastics[-]5.2 Remembering the Great Patriotic War[-]5.3 Babyn Yar[-]5.4 The Holodomor Museum[-]5.5 The Legacy of Chornobyl [-]5.6 Rebuilding Religion[-]6. The Center of Kyiv[-]6.1 A Taste of History [-]6.2 Ghosts[-]6.3 Maidan: Independence Square[-]6.4 Khreshchatyk: Main Street Kyiv[-]6.5 TsUM in Transition[-]6.6 Sts. Sophia, Michael, and Hyatt[-]6.7 Remaking Andrew\'s Descent[-]6.8 Podil at a Crossroad[-]7. A Geography of Privilege and Pretension[-]7.1 A Diamond Monster[-]7.2 Face Control in Arena City[-]7.3 Men in Black[-]7.4 The Strange New Neighborhood of Vozdvyzhenka[-]7.5 Koncha Zaspa: Gated Hideaway[-]7.6 Bullies with Bentleys [-]8. Landscapes of Struggle[-]The Killing of Oksana Makar[-]8.2 Faces of Poverty[-]8.3 Petty Traders[-]8.4 The People\'s Markets [-]8.5 The Scourge of Prejudice[-]8.6 Roma[-]9 "Suburbia"[-]The Residential Ring[-]9.2 Commerce, Cars, and Billboards[-]9.3 The Middle Class and the Malls[-]9.4 Four Photographs[-]10. Seamy Stories[-]10.1 "No More Heroines"[-]10.2 Visitors from Abroad[-]10.3 Sex Tourism[-]10.4 Export Wives[-]10.5 River Vice[-]10.6 The Voices of Femen[-]11 The Defenders of Kyiv[-]Hero City[-]11.2 The Grassroots[-]11.3 Save Old Kyiv[-]11.4 The Republic of Hostynyi Dvir[-]11.5 Oleksandr Glukhov\'s Apartment[-]11.6 The Ordeal of Oleksandr Hudyma[-]11.7 The Last Farmstead in Pozniaky[-]12. Reflections[-]A Souvenir and a Song[-]12.2 A Messy Period[-]12.3 A Book Review[-]References[-]Index[-]