The Face of Fire
Oct 2026 · Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature · Harvard University Press
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In the wake of the horrors of civil war, the Holodomor, and Stalin’s purges, the young Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife, Feliksa, are looking ahead to a brighter future in Kyiv. Ilya, the top heavyweight boxer of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, is primed for victory as champion of the entire Soviet Union. Feliksa, a country girl and a star athlete in track, is deep in training for a major race. Then the Nazi invasion in the summer of 1941 changes everything.
The Face of Fire offers a tapestry of Ukrainian life under the brutal Soviet and Nazi regimes—all based on declassified People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) files and Oleksii Nikitin’s family archive.
The Face of Fire offers a tapestry of Ukrainian life under the brutal Soviet and Nazi regimes—all based on declassified People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) files and Oleksii Nikitin’s family archive.
In the wake of the horrors of civil war, the Holodomor, and Stalin’s purges, the young Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife, Feliksa, are looking ahead to a brighter future in Kyiv. Ilya, the top heavyweight boxer of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, is primed for victory as champion of the entir...
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Oleksii Nikitin, a former physicist and journalist, is one of the most prominent Russian-language writers in Ukraine today. His novels include Istemi, Madzhong, Victory Park, Sanitar s Institutskoi, and Ot litsa ognia.
Catherine O’Neil is Associate Professor of Russian at the United States Naval Academy and translator of Juliusz Slowacki’s Agamemnon’s Tomb: A Polish Oresteia.
Dominique Hoffman has taught courses in Russian language, history and culture. Her previous translations include Yaroslav Hrytsak’s The Forging of the Nation and Olena Stiazhkina’s Cecil the Lion Had to Die.
Oleksii Nikitin, a former physicist and journalist, is one of the most prominent Russian-language writers in Ukraine today. His novels include Istemi, Madzhong, Victory Park, Sanitar s Institutskoi, and Ot litsa ognia.
Catherine O’Neil is Associate Professor of Russian at the United States Naval ...
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