Poetry Cafe 153 : Ukraine 2

Ukraine (2): 19th & 20th centuries

From Tolstoy: ‘War and Peace’ (1869) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Testament’ (1845) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Calamity Again’ (1859) Anne Applebaum: ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ (2017) Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 in C minor (‘Little Russian’), 1st & 4th movements Apollo Korzeniowski (from a letter) Anna Reid: ‘Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine‘ (1997) Edmund de Waal: from ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’ (2010) Shostakovich: Symphony no. 11 (‘The Year 1905’): 1st & 2nd movements A. Bezymensky: words of chorus for Symphony no. 11 Mikhail Sholokhov: ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’ (English, 1934) Serhii Plokhy: ‘The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine’ (2018) From the musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Pete Seeger: ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’ Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10 (2nd movement) Shostakovich: Symphony no. 13 (‘Babi Yar’) Yevgeny Yevtushenko: ‘Fears’ Nikita Khrushchev (quotation) Andrey Kurkov: ‘Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev’ (2014) George Orwell: from ‘1984’ (1949) Mykola Rjabtschuk: article in Die Presse, April 14, 2022 Serhii Plokhy: interview in Der Standard, March 18, 2022 Lina Kostenko: Wir sind verwundete Menschen, zutiefst getroffen (Gedichte, 2022) Gemeinsames Statement des Verbands Freier Rundfunk Oesterreich ‘Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished’ (Ukrainian National Anthem)