Hranice snů - O neuznávaných státech – Grzywaczewski Tomasz (2020)

From the sunflower fields of Transnistria to the minefields of Donetsk, Tomasz Grzywaczewski guides readers in the book Borders of Dreams. Unrecognized states in the territory of the former Soviet Union are, as the case of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh shows, somewhat like ticking time bombs: it is impossible to predict when the "frozen" conflict will flare up again. Yet everywhere, from Transnistria through Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh to the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, civilians have died and fled their homes, ethnic or pseudo-ethnic animosity has reigned, and the future remains uncertain. Some of these conflicts we have already forgotten, while we hear about others daily in the news – and real reconciliation or lasting peace is not in sight. ******************** The author himself writes about the book: This book is the result of my travels through post-Soviet unrecognized states from 2014 to 2016. Each such expedition captured not only a defined place but also a specific historical moment in which I saw and described these republics-non-republics. Unrecognized republics are nothing permanent and unchanging. On the contrary. These small entities are subject to violent and often cruel transformations. When I left for Nagorno-Karabakh in 2015, I did not expect that there...