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This collection of essays is a comprehensive and forward-looking look at Ukraine's past, present and future in political and cultural terms. The author describes the phenomena of Ukrainian realities in a filigree manner, including analyses of the Maidans of Ukraine (2004 and 2013), the crisis of the Ukrainian elite, the crisis of Ukrainian identity by nationality and/or citizenship, and details the facts of the twentieth-century Soviet Iron Curtain in the field of culture and literature, among other things.

Most of these essays have been published in periodicals, most often in English and Ukrainian, sometimes in Polish and German, and occasionally in such exotic languages as Farsi, Turkish, and Catalan. The author prepared all the Ukrainian versions with the hope of a synergistic effect of personal experiences and experiences gathered under one cover - with the hope of awakening from the Soviet delusional dream that has not yet dissipated.

For a wide range of readers.