Intro
I.
Kostiantynivka. 1.
Pokrovsk. 1.
Dobropillia. 1.
Lysychansk. 1.
Sievierodonetsk. 1.
Bakhmut. 1.
Three Fountains and Two and a Half Exhibitions
Ihor Kozlovsky: “Regional myths were fitted like costumes that were supposed to conceal the lack of ideas and generate a mythical reality.”
Kostiantynivka. 2.
Kyiv. 1.
II.
Kostiantynivka. 3.
Bakhmut. 2.
Alevtina Kakhidze: “When I’m introduced, ‘Here’s a Donbas artist,’ I have the urge to say, ‘Hello, as you can see, I don’t have horns.’”
Pokrovsk. 2.
Dobropillia. 2.
Chthonic Shubin and Holy Barbara
Pokrovsk. 3.
Roman Minin: “The main point of pride of the residents of the Donetsk region is their ability to survive.”
Kyiv. 2.
Bakhmut. 3.
Lysychansk. 2.
The War, the Welsh, and the “Wild Fields” Startup
Serhiy Zhadan: “If we don’t want to separate off the east, we need to get to know it”
Lysychansk. 3.
Sievierodonetsk. 2.
The Miners’ Tribe and the Truth of Literature
Kyiv. 3.
III.
Lysychansk. 4.
Bakhmut. 4.
Pokrovsk. 4.
Olena Stiazhkina: “The GULAG was no longer needed. Camps were pointless because the camp was embedded within me.”
Sievierodonetsk. 3.
Pokrovsk. 5.
Kostiantynivka. 4.
Dobropillia. 3.
Kyiv. 4.
Volodymyr Rafeyenko: “It’s important to understand that it wasn’t regional peculiarities that caused this war, and it wasn’t the Ukrainians who brought it on.”
The Romanivka Farmstead
The East
The Return
Outro
Afterword to an Invasion
Bibliography
