Kyiv, Ukraine : the city of domes and demons from the collapse of socialism to the mass uprising of 2013-2014 / Roman Adrian Cybriwsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 30, 2016).

Cover; Table of Contents; A Note about Transliteration; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Far from Heaven; 1.1 A Curious Face; 1.2 Graffito; 1.3 A New American; 1.4 Domes and Demons; 1.5 A Changing City; 1.6 Angry Citizens; 1.7 Linking to the Literature; 1.8 Postsocialist Urbanism; 2. The Missing Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv; 2.1 Life in Limbo; 2.2 An Imperium of Raiders; 2.3 Theater at Teatralna; 2.4 A Dubious Home; 3. Sketches from the Capital; 3.1 Castle Hill; 3.2 Notes from Euro 2012; 3.3 Monumental Woes; 3.4 Demons at Desiatynna; 3.5 The Ukrainian Fight Club.

3.6 A Missing Mayor3.7 A Geography of the President; 3.8 Helipad from Hell; 4. Soviet Ways, Post-Soviet Days; 4.1 Looking after Lenin; 4.2 Red Army Birthday; 4.3 One Day in the Life of the Ukrainian Language; 4.4 May 18, 2013; 4.5 Heorhiy Ruslanovych Gongadze; 4.6 A Personal Warning?; 5. Historical Memory; 5.1 Place-name Gymnastics; 5.2 Remembering the Great Patriotic War; 5.3 Babyn Yar; 5.4 The Holodomor Museum; 5.5 The Legacy of Chornobyl; 5.6 Rebuilding Religion; 6. The Center of Kyiv; 6.1 A Taste of History; 6.2 Ghosts; 6.3 Maidan: Independence Square; 6.4 Khreshchatyk: Main Street Kyiv.

6.5 TsUM in Transition6.6 SS. Sophia, Michael, and Hyatt; 6.7 Remaking Andrew's Descent; 6.8 Podil at a Crossroads; 7. A Geography of Privilege and Pretension; 7.1 A Diamond Monster; 7.2 Face Control in Arena City; 7.3 Men in Black; 7.4 The Strange New Neighborhood of Vozdvyzhenka; 7.5 Koncha Zaspa: Gated Hideaway; 7.6 Bullies with Bentleys; 8. Landscapes of Struggle; 8.1 The Killing of Oksana Makar; 8.2 Faces of Poverty; 8.3 Petty Traders; 8.4 The People's Markets; 8.5 The Scourge of Prejudice; 8.6 Roma; 9. "Suburbia"; 9.1 The Residential Ring; 9.2 Commerce, Cars, and Billboards.

9.3 The Middle Class and the Malls9.4 Four Photographs; 10. Seamy Stories; 10.1 "No More Heroines"; 10.2 Visitors from Abroad; 10.3 Sex Tourism; 10.4 Export Wives; 10.5 River Vice; 10.6 The Voices of FEMEN; 11. The Defenders of Kyiv; 11.1 Hero City; 11.2 The Grassroots; 11.3 Save Old Kyiv; 11.4 The Republic of Hostynyi Dvir; 11.5 Oleksandr Glukhov's Apartment; 11.6 The Ordeal of Oleksandr Hudyma; 11.7 The Last Farmstead in Pozniaky; 12. Reflections; 12.1 A Souvenir and a Song; 12.2 A Messy Period; 12.3 A Book Review; 13. Two Years Later; 13.1 Euromaidan and Aftermath.

13.2 The Last Days of Euromaidan13.3 Kyiv Updates; References; Index; List of Illustrations and Tables; List of Illustrations; Figure 0.1 -- The author and 26 of his 27 students at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, May 2011, plus Peter; Figure 1.1 -- "Ukraine Is Far from Heaven" graffito; Figure 1.2 -- Olena Zhelesko with megaphone; Figure 1.3 -- A view of Kyiv across the Dnipro River; Figure 2.1 -- Exhibits from the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv being packed up for moving to limbo (Courtesy of V. Kovalynskyi); Figure 3.1 -- Under the People's Friendship Arch.

Figure 3.2 -- The small and controversial Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. In the background is the historic, baroque St. Andrew's Church, while to the right is a fence that demarcates the site of Desiatynna Church. The signboard announces that.

The unrest and violence in Ukraine in recent years shocked the world, and the region's long-term future remains troublingly uncertain. Focusing on the difficulty of Kiev's transition from socialism to market democracy, this book demonstrates how Ukraine reached this turbulent point. Roman Adrian Cybriwsky delves deeply into the changing social geography of the city, recent urban development, and critical problems such as official corruption, inequality, sex tourism, and the heedless destruction of the city's historical architecture - all difficulties that have contributed incrementally to Ukrainian citizens' anger against their government. This thoroughly revised edition brings Cybriwsky's account of events and their ramifications fully up to date, offering the clearest picture we've had yet of what has happened - and what is likely still to come - in Ukraine.

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