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‘A deeply researched and well-argued book that locates the roots of Zelensky’s ability to captivate and mobilize the imagination of his fellow citizens in the rise of Ukrainian civic identity

the book draws on exclusive interviews with individuals who lived through the conflict's key events

Ukrainian Cinema Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw by Joshua First Soviet music who so fiercely hold onUkrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s 70s. He argues that film makers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and demanded that the Soviet film industry and audiences alike