At the Fence of Metternich's Garden : Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization / / Mykola Riabchuk, Andreas Umland

• Autore: Riabchuk Mykola
• Pubblicazione: Hannover, : ibidem, 2021
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 pages)
• Disciplina: 947.7
• Soggetto topico: Ukraine; History; Geschichte; Europe; Europa; Politics; Politik
• Persona (resp. second.): UmlandAndreas
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Introduction -- Part One European Dreams -- (1) Behind the Fence -- (2) Barbecue in the European Garden -- (3) Ambiguous Borderland -- (4) 'Eurasian' Othering -- (5) Metaphors of Betrayal -- Part Two Maidan and Beyond -- (6) Not-So-Unexpected Nation -- (7) Pluralism by Default -- (8) What's Left of Orange Ukraine? -- (9) The End of Post-Soviet Pragmatism? -- (10) After the Crash -- (11) Maidan 2.0. -- (12) The Fourteenth Worst Place -- (13) Dying for 'Europe' -- (14) Crying Wolf -- (15) Ukraine's Ordeal -- (16) Passions over Federalization ; (17) On the "Wrong" and "Right" Ukrainians -- (18) Turn to the Right-and Back -- Part Three Lessons of Solidarity -- (19) My Polish Schism -- (20) A Fortress of Rules -- (21) Repossessions -- (22) Eight Jews in Search of a Grandfather -- (23) How I Became a 'Czechoslovak' -- (24) On Bridges and Walls -- (25) An Incident -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of essays reflects the personal experience of a Ukrainian intellectual engaged, since his Soviet-time youth, in a painstaking but fascinating process of the both cultural and political ‘Europeanization’ of his country. The title refers, ironically, to the notorious Chancellor Metternich’s quip that Asia presumably begins at the eastern fence of his garden (or, as another apocryphal version maintains, at the eastern end of the Viennese Landstrasse). This is a story of both exclusion and inclusion, of walls and fences, but also of a longing for freedom and a quest for solidarity. It is a book on different ways of being a ‘European’—at both the collective and individual level,—despite various challenges or, perhaps, thanks to them.
• Titolo autorizzato: At the fence of Metternich's garden
• ISBN: 9783838274843; 3838274849
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956003003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ukrainian voices (Stuttgart, Germany) ; ; 5.