Read Women discussion

I thought we could use a place to share, vent, chat about the invasion of Ukraine, and also share recommended books, documentaries, short stories, and other relevant content. In this instance, I propose that we not limit recommendations to authors who identify as women.

From Five Books, the best books on Ukraine by Yale historian Marci Shore.
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/ukra...
She mentions Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop by Amelia GlaserEverything Flows by Vasily Grossman
Greetings from Novorossiya: Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine by Paweł Pieniążek
The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Żanna Słoniowska (historical fiction)
Mesopotamia by Serhiy Zhadan (stories set in Kharkiv)

and here's the landing page for Ukraine @ Five Books, which leads to other lists, including those focused on Ukraine- Russia Relations, among other topics.
https://fivebooks.com/category/world/...

We watched the Netflix documentary, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, last Friday night and it's breathtaking. You have to read subtitles for 95% of it, so be prepared not to multi-task, as if you could for long anyway. Highly recommended.

From The Nation, an article entitled, "A Dispatch from the Cultural Front in Kyiv," by publisher Anetta Antonenko, from which TIL that Gogol was Ukrainian (not Russian).
https://www.thenation.com/article/cul...

How is everyone?

This is really cool... Thanks...
I was about to start one of PhD. Timothy Snyder's book... The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999.
As a historian, Snyder especialises in Eastern Europe.

EDIT: I just noticed is a READ WOMEN thread. :v
Sorry...

Malola wrote: "EDIT: I just noticed is a READ WOMEN thread. :v
Sorry..."

Not to worry, Carol says in the OP, "I propose that we not limit recommendations to authors who identify as women." :)

Malola wrote: "This is really cool... Thanks...
I was about to start one of PhD. Timothy Snyder's book... The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999.
As a histor..."

No worries, malola. I have heard good things about Snyder’s book elsewhere, too, and look forward to reading your feedback on it. This is a moment when so many of us need to read and educate ourselves that our priorities maybe shift a bit to take advantage of all solid resources. Thanks for your comment, too.

Timothy Snyder's always worth exploring, and see you also mentioned a list by his wife, fellow academic, Marci Shore. Snyder now has a substack dedicated to events in Ukraine, including places to donate.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/a-few-w...

Also worth checking for articles by Sophie Pinkham who wrote Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine

Lithub also has a list of books related to Ukraine:

https://lithub.com/understanding-the-...

Also if we're making an exception then a lot of detail on Ukraine past and present in Phillipe Sands excellent East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity which also touches on the problems with the many far right groups in contemporary Ukraine.

Some relevant titles on this list too:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

@Lethe, lol... Yes... XD You're right. I was so distracted yesterday.

@Carol... Cool. I think we need a discussion/chat thread somewhere.

@Alwaynne... I wasn't aware Shore and Snyder were a power couple. :v Cool.
Also, I just found out that Svetlana Alexievich is Ukrainian thanks to your list. I noticed because War's Unwomanly Face and Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (both on my TBR) are there.

This is a rather short thread, yet highly informative... Huh, nice.

Alwynne wrote: "Timothy Snyder's always worth exploring, and see you also mentioned a list by his wife, fellow academic, Marci Shore. Snyder now has a substack dedicated to events in Ukraine, including places to d..."

Great comments and recs, as always, Alwynne. I don't think I knew Snyder and Shore were a couple. Very cool.

I'm a big Twitter user and RTer in terms of significant news events. If anyone is seeking sources that are on-the-ground and/or actually experts on Ukraine and Russia, along with some military history pros, Daniel Dale's list rocks. It's grown over the last week by approximately 5K followers per day, for good reason.

https://twitter.com/i/lists/149432729...

I've seen Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration by Adriana N. Helbig on quite a few lists. Has anyone got an opinion on it?

Thanks so much for starting this thread! I've added a number of books to my list.

Another book that comes to mind is Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. It is not exclusively about Ukraine, but Ukraine is featured heavily as a Russian target for critical infrastructure hacking (i.e., Russia took out Ukraine's power grid remotely, more than once).

Has anybody got any Ukrainian fiction recommendations? I've just requested A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian from my library

The Goodreads list I mentioned has a few possibilities.

Also came across this one Hannah but haven't read it, Yevgenia Belorusets Lucky Breaks