"Our Nineties. The First Generation of Independents" is an archive book and at the same time a book of testimony that records the diversity of experiences that formed a country that continues to grow up together with the first eyewitnesses of its independence.
The book stitches together a multitude of voices that broke free from the staleness of the USSR: artists, "shuttles", historians, entrepreneurs, teachers, teenagers with cassettes, people from different regions of Ukraine and even those who were called "bandits of the nineties".
This is a mosaic in which the first article of the newly adopted Constitution and the memory of bread, butter and sugar, if you were lucky enough to stand in line, exist side by side. The explosion of art in a vacuum and the development of the Ukrainian musical underground. Scrolling a cassette with a pencil. The first foreign cars and money that suddenly turned into pieces of paper. The birth of democracy on the Maidan and everyday life.
The book combines reportage, oral history, and a visual album: the text is accompanied by family photo archives and documentary footage. It is a story about freedom that at first frightened, then seduced, and later became a point of no return. About a generation that learned to live without a script — and thus created its own.
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