Colin Thomas

Dreaming a City: From Wales to Ukraine

The Story of Hughesovka/Stalino/Donetsk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In the inaugural BAFTA Cymru ceremony in 1991, author Colin Thomas received the BAFTA for Best Documentary for the BBC TV series Hughesovka and the New Russia, directed by himself and presented by eminent Welsh historian Gwyn Alf Williams. This short volume of social and political history stems from that series. It looks into how the town came to be founded in the 1870s by a Welshman in what was then the Russian-held territory of Ukraine, and traces its subsequent history through industrialization, revolution, Communist rule as part of the USSR, and the independence of Ukraine upon the USSR's break-up. Themes include capitalism vs. communism, nationalism vs. internationalism, and freedom vs. exploitation. Through analysis of Hughesovka's development, we explore the retreat from political idealism and the nature of hope and disillusion. Anyone struggling to understand the present-day war in Ukraine will find this rewarding background reading on the complex situation which still entangles Ukraine, Russia and the West to this day."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Y Lolfa
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 195mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781912631438
• ISBN-10: 1912631431
• Artikelnr.: 63869413

Autorenporträt

Colin Thomas is a prize-winning documentary screenwriter and producer, whose accolades include the Celtic Film and TV Festival Jury Award; the Gold Award at Houston International Film Festival; the Prix Europa and three BAFTA Cymru awards. The TV documentary series, 'Hughesovka and the New Russia', from which this book stems, won Best Documentary at the inaugural BAFTA Cymru awards in 1991. His BBC Radio 4 drama documentary on the subject of this book, 'Hiraeth in Hughesovka', was broadcast in 2008.