ISBN1680539663 (hardcover)
1680539671 (paperback)
9781680539660 (hardcover)
9781680539677 (paperback)
数量xviii, 321 pages ; ; 24 cm.
寄与者Vladislav Davidzon ; foreword by Peter Pomerantsev ; preface by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
一般注記Foreword: Odessa, Odessa! / Simopn Sebag Montefiore -- Preface: The tales of Vlad-Genius Loci / Peter Pomerantsev -- Introduction / Vladislav Davidzon -- I. On Odessa: Odessa story: reading Isaac Babel in Ukraine ; Putin makes Peace, but not before his minions try to kill poet Boris Khersonsky ; One night in Odessa ; A close (and surprisingly positive) encounter with Odessa's new police ; An American innocent abroad meets a New York dandy In Odessa ; Russian conceptual artist Petr Pavlensky ; Last-minute threat cancels Nobel Laureate speech -- II. Politics and adventure: on the road with Bernard-Henri Levy, the planet's last superstar French intellectual ; France's most divisive philosophical debate arrives in Odessa ; Women of the Gulag: from Stalin to Pussy Riot ; Ukraine tells Depardieu to get lost ; European parliament hosts conference on Crimean Tatars ; The death of Ukraine's liberals -- III. Ukrainegate: Donald Trump and Paul Manafort: Breaking Manafort scandals reveal the rot at the heart of the Trump campaign; Russia wns ; Did Tony Podesta and Paul Manafort know they were taking dirty money in Ukraine? ; In Ukraine, speculations about the Manafort investigation continue ; A Ukrainian insider on Manafort, man about town in Kyiv ; Will the Manafort trial turn Trump against Ukraine? ; Trump is our first central Asian-Soviet president ; What Mueller taught Ukraine -- IV. Mikheil Saakashvili in Odessa: Odessa on edge ; Ukraine's best-known reformer succumbs to the lure of populism ; Saakashvili in Odessa and Ukraine: anatomy of a failure ; Is the Odessa Mafia's angel of death actually dead? ; In Ukrainian politics, it's fear, loathing, and chaos -- V. Influence operations and kleptocracy: In attempt at fiscal transparency, Ukrainian MPs publicly open their coffers ; Kompromat vs. Maskirovka ; A damning report ; We need more lord lebedevs ; How Ukraine became Chinatown ; Difficult neighbors: the Belarus crisis -- VI. On statues: Monument to Isaac Babel erected in Odessa ; Ukraine's post-Soviet identity through its statues ; Sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, who challenged the Soviet regime, dies at 91 ; Invitation to a beheading: what can American statue-topplers learn from Europe? ; The Viking who defeated the Odessa mafia and erected a runestone -- VII. Views and reviews: Culture under threat: the Odessa philharmonic orchestra as case study ; Trouble on the Dnieper ; Fake news from cannes -- VIII. Obituaries and appreciations: All that is solid melts into Berman ; Boris Nemtsov, murdered in the shadow of the Kremlin ; `Nemtsov Square' in Kyiv ; In memory of Isaiah Berlin ; Your guide to the next, never-ending war ; Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev ; A clown's funeral ; Swaggering gangster mayor Hennadiy Kernes ; Unravelling the myth of George Soros -- IX. Conversations: A Conversation with ambassador Steven Pifer ; A Conversation with writer Yurii Andrukhovych ; A Conversation with conductor Hobart Earle.