In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah book prize The author identifies and discusses

The author identifies and discusses two central myths that dominated Russian culture during this period – that art revealed the Russian soul

Ironside shows how Soviet citizens turned to the state to remedy the damage that the ravages of the Second World War had inflicted upon their household economies

Russia's incursions into Syria

the years in which musical nationalism was encouraged and endorsed by the Russian state and its Soviet successor

The New York Times“A rich and readable introduction to the whole sweep of Russian cultural and intellectual history from Kievan times to the post-Khruschev era

In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah book prize The author identifies and discussesAn urgent, insightful account of the human side of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by seasoned war reporter Tim Judah. Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern frontline near the Russian border, Tim Judah brings a rare glimpse of the reality behind the headlines. Along the way he talks to the people living through the conflict mothers, soldiers, businessmen, poets,