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As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

• Introduction: La Guerre de Crimée n’aura pas lieu
• À la Recherche de la guerre gagnée: Crimea, the Invisible War
• Spectacles of War
• Crimea: The Visible War
• À la recherche de la guerre oubliée: Crimea, the Forgotten War.

"The Crimean War (1854-56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches--precursors of the Great War. It is also the first media war: the first to know the impact of a correspondent on the field of battle and the first war to be documented in photographs. No one, however, including the French themselves, seems to remember that France was there, fighting in Crimea, losing 95,000 soldiers and leading the Allied campaign to victory. It would seem that the Crimean War has no place in the canon of culturally retained historical events that define modern French identity. Looking at literature, art, theatre, material objects, and medical reports, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory considers how the Crimean War was and was not represented in French cultural history in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape."-- Provided by publisher.

• A white space on the map
• Lukashenka's rise
• The opposition's rise?
• Clampdown
• The west reacts.

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: "Beyond the Great Stories" of Russia's Wars and Revolutions
• The Past and Present in Three "Great Stories"
• Material Conditions, Emotional Fields, Power, and Their "Voices"
• Historical Imagination and Its Mindsets
• The Focus of This Study
• A Methodological Challenge: Reading beyond Description
• Putting the Revolution in Its Place: Great Stories and Historical Explanations
• Part I: The Imperial Meanings of Scarcity and Loss
• 1. "Fighting with God" and the Languages of Loss

• Assessing Patriotism
• Surveilling Loyalty
• Early Losses and Their Implications
• At the Front: The Shocks of War
• Reading Soldiers' Moods
• Military Censorship and the Galician Disaster
• 2. Was Russia Prepared?
• "Embedded" Underdevelopment, Russia's Peasants, and the Market Problem
• Fault Lines of Economic Mobilization
• Russia's Railroad Lifeline
• The Strains of State Finance
• Assessing Loss
• 3. "Dying of Hunger": Representations and Realities of Scarcity
• Early Voices of "Extreme Need"
• The Military Zone of Violence

• "Dying of Hunger": Procurements, Prices, and the Rising Cost of Living
• "Extreme Need" in the Workplace
• Food Insecurities and the "Baba" Question
• 4. Empowering "Responsible Publics" and the Emergence of War Capitalism
• War Industries Committees and the Special Councils
• Devolving Authority, Engaging the Localities
• The Progressive Bloc and the Question of Autocratic Power
• Funding Production, Regulating Distribution
• Contesting Authorities: The Emissary Problem
• Militarization vs. Mediation: The "Worker Question"
• War Capitalism and Its Cultures

• Rising Anxieties with the Coming of Winter
• 5. Seeking Solutions, Drowning in Blood
• Winter and Spring of 1916: Anxieties about Mismanagement and Malfeasance from Below
• Contending Anxieties: Confusion and Chaos from Above
• The Vexing Problems of Rationing and Fixed Prices
• State Finance as a "Bacchanalia of Corruption"
• Political Dilemmas
• Scarcity, Railroads, and the Labor Question: Militarization as Solution
• "Brusilov's Breakthrough" as Tragic Romance
• The Soldiers' Story: "Drowning in Blood"
• 6. Scripting Revolution
• "Literally Facing Starvation"

• Extending Compulsory Labor: From World War to Civil War
• The Rittikh Confiscation
• Subsistence Protests and the October Strikes
• Russia's Revolutionary Situation
• Scripting the Revolution
• Part II: Revolutionary Imperatives
• 7. "Responsible Men in Whom the Country Has Confidence": The Challenges of Revolutionary Governance
• Writing the "Truth" in the Third Winter of War
• Scarcity and Anxiety on the Home Front
• Uprising, Insurrection, Revolution
• Locations and Forms of Power and Questions of Political Legitimacy
• Scarcity and Social Identity
• Loss and the Meanings of War

The 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution's call for justice, dignity, and liberty brought Ukraine, which had 'disappeared ' behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II, into the world's public consciousness. Yet, the country was soon almost forgotten again. In early 2022, the rapid escalation of Putin's war on Ukraine has put the country back into the spotlight. Without knowing the country's past, one cannot understand its present. This anthology tackles the complex history of terror and violence in Ukraine -- from the millionfold starvation of the Holodomor to the changing occupation regimes, from the 'Shoah by Bullets' to the Chornobyl disaster. Those ready to delve deeper into the checkered, painful history of the country will better understand Ukraine's current quest for independence, freedom, and democracy.