This book is about the Ukrainian communities of the Donetsk region and Luhansk region, which operated from the early 2000s until the Russian invasion in 2014, and whose existence was denied by the Russian-Soviet myth about Donbas. About cultural spaces, student environments, the Ukrainian village, and various religions. About those who wanted to live not in a mythologized past but in a free, democratic Ukraine.
These communities were the voices of the new, post-Soviet Donetsk and Luhansk regions, embedded in the all-Ukrainian context, the awakening of the sleeping (oppressed, exterminated, tortured) Ukrainian people.
The book's purpose is to make at least part of their history known.
Kateryna Zarembo is a researcher, translator, and teacher, specialist in Ukraine's foreign policy and civil society.
Associate analyst of the "New Europe" Center; teacher of the Department of International Relations of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy".
The author of the book "Anyone Can Write Analytics. The Art of Persuasive Text" (with the participation of Iryna Lapshina, Ilona Sologub, Taras Doronyuk, and Anna Jurgen), 2021. She translated into Ukrainian "After the War. History of Europe since 1945" by Tony Judt.
The book was published with the assistance of the Kharkiv office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
