Kyiv, Ukraine - Revised Edition

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.

Roman Adrian Cybriwsky is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, and former Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He divides his time between Philadelphia, Kyiv, and Tokyo, about which he has also written books.

Preface and Acknowledgments 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 Mayor 3.7 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 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 Transition 6.6 Sts. Sophia, Michael, and Hyatt 6.7 Remaking Andrew's Descent 6.8 Podil at a Crossroad 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 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 The Residential Ring 9.2 Commerce, Cars, and Billboards 9.3 The Middle Class and the Malls 9.4 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 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 A Souvenir and a Song 12.2 A Messy Period 12.3 A Book Review References Index.