Ucrania, encrucijada de culturas

Since, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine declared its independence in 1991, the country has been a pawn on the board of international politics. Between two worlds, Russia to the east and the European Union to the west, the balance of forces was always precarious, and took a particularly dramatic channel after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, in March 2014, and the invasion of Ukraine initiated in February 2022. In Ukraine, crossroads of cultures, Karl Schlögel analyzes the reality of a country whose recent history has taken place in the shadow of two opposite political traditions: cities such as Lviv, Odess A complex past, often extraordinarily tragic, but also a delicious cultural heritage that the author invites us to discover exploring his "urban corpus", whose strata reveals "in a kind of urban archeology that invites us to speak to the past". An essential book that sheds light on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and offers important keys to the past, present and future of Europe.