This anthology, edited by Daria Badior and Anastasia Platonova, focuses on how the Russian war against Ukraine radically transformed the identities, views, thoughts, ideas, and values, of Ukrainian people.

In this collection of essays, Ukrainian culture makers reflect on their lives during the war, speaking through their experiences and documenting shifts caused by the full-scale invasion.

The ten essays tell stories about leaving homes, intellectual and professional reinventions, the emotional burden of witnessing, attempts to explain this war’s cultural pretexts to people outside Ukraine, and finding one’s own voice in the world that changed forever.

The English version of the book is published by ist publishing in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The German version is published by Spector Books in Leipzig, Germany.

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Contributors: Lia Dostlieva, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Kseniya Kharchenko, Oleksandra Kravchenko, Ksenia Malykh, Yevheniya Nesterovych, Zhenya Oliinyk, Maryna Stepanska, Iryna Tsilyk, Pavlo Yurov

English translation: Hanna Leliv

Translation editing: Zoe Turner

Proofreading: Iryna Kurhanska

Design: Malin Gewinner

Typesetting: Ostap Yashchuk

Project management:

Anastasia Leonova (ist publishing), Stefan H. Kraft (Futur3), Anne König (Spector Books)

ist publishing project team: Kateryna Nosko, Borys Filonenko, Viktoria Berkut

Communications: Polina Sopolieva

Co-publisher: Spector Books

Supported by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia