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Ukraine
L'indépendance à tout prix
Annie Daubenton

Ukraine proclaimed its independence in 1991. But it isn’t easy to just walk away from the Soviet Union and Moscow, even after a failed putsch and the collapse of an ensemble that, at the end of the day, had nothing natural about it. Walls may have come down, and treaties been torn up, but how is a new State born, and how does it grow towards democracy, Europe and freedom? That is the story told in this book. Ukraine was something of a pioneer in terms of (orange) revolution and non-violence. Yet it is still confronted with all the impediments inherent to the countries issued from the USSR: battles with the structures from the former regime, struggle against corruption, mutation of mindsets. While the population sometimes digs in its heels, in other ways, it is ahead of its leaders, who act like the nouveaux riches of politics, more worried about showing laws off then abut applying them. In this book, Annie Daubenton retraces the metamorphoses of Ukrainian independence. Thanks to her in-depth knowledge of Ukrainian history, culture and society, she shows how the country exists in and of itself, and how it struggles not only with the internal heritage of Communism, but also with its Russian neighbor’s imperialistic ambitions.

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  • Buchet/Chastel
  • Essais-Documents
  • Non-Fiction
  • Publication date : 02/10/2014
  • 464 p., 13,99 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-02849-0
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