Backstage of Ukrainian Revolutions: Literary essays

Ihor Skrypnyk

The book by Ihor Skrypnyk, a Ukrainian journalist, essayist and writer, speaks of his experience of living through the upbuilding of Ukrainian independence at the turn of the 21st century. In the collection of essays Backstage of Ukrainian Revolutions, the author, with his characteristic hermeticism of texts, comprehends the price of freedom, complex psychological moments of his own political imprisonment, the blood of the Ukrainian-Russian war. The book includes his metaphysical reflections on national freedom, a middle Ukrainian who is oft en forced to confront not only the external enemy, but also theatrically disguised internal one.