Literature & Literary Studies

Witnessing: Anatomy of Russia's Annexation of the Crimea

by Anna Andrievska, Olena Halimon

Description

The creation of this book was spearheaded by two journalists who used to work in Ukraine’s Crimea. The book’s genre is a mix of reportage, activism, and oral history and presents a narrative about Russia’s invasion of Crimea and its annexation in the spring of 2014. The volume captures the everyday life and resistance of the Crimean people under the occupation as well as the work of human rights and pro-Ukrainian activists who had remained in Crimea despite the crackdown of the collaborating local authorities and Russian security forces. The editors have amassed a sizable amount of recollections and testimonies. They interviewed forced migrants who moved to Ukraine-controlled territory immediately or soon after the annexation, people who were persecuted, held captive, or incarcerated by the FSB (the Russian Security Service) as well as residents who stayed in Crimea. These testimonies have undergone a media fact-check and an assessment by human rights institutions, such as the Crimean Human Rights Group and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, and were reworked in accordance with the standards of democratic journalism, translated into Ukrainian, and equipped with authentic illustrations. Some stories and documents were taken from the public domain and are included with the authors’ permission, while other stories were recorded specifically for this book.

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Ukrainian journalists who worked in Crimea for a long time and were eyewitnesses of the "Crimean Spring" in 2014.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Krytyka
  • Publication Date 2019
  • Orginal LanguageUkrainian
  • ISBN/Identifier 9789662789133
  • Publication Country or regionUkraine
  • Pages248
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleКнига свідчень. Анатомія російської анексії Криму.
  • Original Language AuthorsАндрієвська Анна, Халімон Олена

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