{"product_id":"belarus-faces-of-resistance-paperback","title":"Belarus: Faces of Resistance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOlga V. Solovieva\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBelarus--Faces of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e preserves the memory of the Belarusian protests of 2020 by documenting a series of transnational collaborative events which took place on Chicago's South Side in 2019-2023. The book contains material from roundtables, exhibits, interviews, seminars, and commentaries, dedicated to the situation in Belarus before, during, and after the protests which erupted in response to the contested presidential elections in August, 2020. This collection should help the international community understand the 2020 Belarusian protests: their history, context, dynamics, global interconnectedness, as well as their aftermath and impact. The volume assembles a range of perspectives coming from the participants on the ground, expert observers, artists, cultural critics, students, politicians, and scholars of the region, reflecting on the events in a variety of forms and media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlga V. Solovieva\u003c\/b\u003e is Researcher in Comparative and Slavonic Literatures at the Center of Excellence IMSErt at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eChrist's Subversive Body: Practices of Religious Rhetoric in Culture and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), and co-editor of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJapan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid R. Marples\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor, Department of History \u0026amp; Classics, University of Alberta. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eJoseph Stalin\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), \u003ci\u003eThe War in Ukraine's Donbas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(edited, 2022), \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Ukraine and Belarus \u003c\/i\u003e(2020), \u003ci\u003eUkraine in Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003e'Our Glorious Past: Lukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic War\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrei Kureichik\u003c\/b\u003e is a Belarusian playwright, film and stage director, publicist, and civil activist, who gained international recognition as a political playwright following the contested presidential elections and subsequent events in Belarus in August 2020. He is a member of the Coordination Council, representing the democratic opposition in Belarus which was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament in 2020. In Fall of 2022, Kureichik participated in the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program at Yale's Jackson School of Global Affairs. Currently, he is Fortunoff Archive Fellow and Playwright-in-Residence at Yale University.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 10 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52637556867379,"sku":"9798887198125","price":107.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/we6tNl78c69798887198125.webp?v=1762293201","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/belarus-faces-of-resistance-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}