In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas

Contents\nFrom the Editors\nPreface\nThe Lost Generation of the “Fabled Novorossiia”\nHow I Became a Shadow in My Own Land\nWho Has Joined the DPR Militants and What Are They Fighting for?\nExecuted as an “Enemy of the People” of the DPR\nThe Checkpoint: “I’m Alive because of the War”\nHow to Defeat the DPR\nYoung People in the DPR and the LPR: What Does the Future Hold?\nThe Donetsk “Uprising” a Year Later: The Future of an Illusion\nAn Excuse to Pull the Trigger\nThe Voice of the Donbas: How Five Thousand Victims Are “Heard”\nChronicle of Decline and Fall: The Donetsk Oblast State Administration Building\nGrenades Aren’t a Big Deal Anymore: Everyday Tragedies in Makiїvka\nWhy They Like “Tsars” in the Donbas\nWhat is Ukraine to Me? The View from Makiїvka\nA Letter to the Russians\nWho Lives off the Residents of Occupied Donbas?\nThe “Esperanto” of Vladimir Putin\nA Letter to My Country\nThe Half-life of the Sovok\nIrreconcilable Differences\nA Few Fairytales about the DPR\nDonbas: Seven Hundred Days of Solitude\nWhat Comes Next?\nLower Than Rock Bottom\nCultural Life under Occupation: The City of Donetsk\nCitizens without Citizenship\nHomo Donbasus, or The Changes Brought by the War\nAbout Easter… and More\nChaos in Their Heads: How the War Is Perceived in the Occupied Zone\nWhat Pygmalion Left Unsaid\nEvening Strolls through an Empty City\nQuid Prodest?\nThe “Remainers”: The Undiscovered Bosch of the DPR\nScreeching in the Thorns\n“Primaries” under the Occupation\nPropaganda on the Streets of Donetsk\nOccupation as It Is: Khartsyzk\nThat Sweet Word, “War”\nWhere the Elite of Occupied Donetsk Take Their Leisure\nDonetsk: A Tour of Expropriated Places\nImmersed in War\nThe Donbas in 2017: Three Variations on a Theme\nThe DPR and Religion\nHow the Militants Prepare Children to Join Their Military Organizations\n“I Fought in the War”: Life after Leaving the DPR Militia\nBack in the USSR: Soviet Themes in Donetsk Eateries\n“Looking for a Tusk to Buy”: Ads in Occupied Donetsk\nFollowing the Path of Crimea?\nUs and Them\nA Knack for Losing Things\nNotes\nIllustration Credits