Marci Shore, “La notte ucraina. Storie da una rivoluzione”

Marci Shore – La notte ucraina. Storie da una rivoluzione (2025)

Castelvecchi Editore

Translated and with a foreword by Olivia Guaraldo
Afterword by Giacomo Mormino

EuroMaidan was a historical moment in which the human capacity to rewrite the present and to express a kind of “public happiness” capable of transforming individual lives became manifest. It was the unexpected miracle of a revolution that went far beyond the fall of Yanukovych’s authoritarian and corrupt regime—a democratic turning point without which Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion cannot be understood. With sensitivity and analytical depth, Marci Shore restores the human dimension of those decisive days in this book, through a narrative of extraordinary intensity, constructed from interviews with activists, soldiers, and citizens. La notte ucraina is an essential document that not only sheds light on the recent history of Eastern Europe, but also shapes a vital political lexicon for our present.

While the world observed the events in Ukraine through the lens of geopolitics, those who attended the pro-European demonstrations in Kyiv in the winter of 2013–2014 experienced something radical: the suspension of time, the dissolution of fear, the urgency of irrevocable choices.

“An exceptional book that captures with rare clarity the contingency, uncertainty, and chaos of the Maidan resistance.” In La notte ucraina. Storie da una rivoluzione, Marci Shore confronts us with the complex choices faced by Ukrainians, skillfully weaving their personal experiences with the intellectual, social, and political history of the region.

MARCI SHORE was a Professor of History at Yale University until March 2025, when she decided to leave the United States in protest against the policies of Donald Trump. She currently teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where she continues her research on the intellectual history of Central and Eastern Europe. La notte ucraina. Storie da una rivoluzione is her first book translated into Italian.