Take My Grief Away - Voices from the War in Ukraine

Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, Katerina Gordeeva has become a one-person alternative to a huge government propaganda machine [in Russia]. The storylines and people collected in this book are staggering. Tragedies, the journey of the Ukrainian people from incomprehension to fury, via rage... A wound that is now permanent. How can one live with that? And what about hope? Is hope now gone forever? And what if you cannot change anything? Rainer Werner Fassbinder once noted that even if you can''t change anything, that doesn''t remove your duty to document everything. What Gordeeva documents changes the world, too. You''re now about to experience that for yourself.>

About the author

Katerina Gordeeva is an award-winning Russian independent journalist. Until 2012, she worked as a TV reporter for the federal television channel NTV. During her time at NTV, she reported as from the frontlines of Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq as a war correspondent. She later resigned from the channel due to a disagreement with the channel's programming agenda. Katerina left Moscow out of protest in 2014, after Russia's remorseless annexation of Crimea and seizure of part of Eastern Ukraine.

In 2020, she created her own YouTube channel, which today has more than 1.3 million subscribers. To make her documentary film Humans At War, Katerina Gordeeva travelled to dozens of refugee shelters in both Europe and Russia. She collected first-person accounts by interviewing of people with opposing views about their experiences and how the war had drastically changed their lives. This three-hour testimonial film has been viewed by more than 2.5 million people.

In the summer of 2022, Gordeeva was named as one of the top 10 most influential independent journalists in Russia. She is a five-time winner of the Redcollegia Award, an independent prize that recognizes the work of journalists doing ground-breaking work despite government pressure. Gordeeva was awarded the Anna Politkovskaya International Journalism Prize in August in 2022, an award that truly honors her commitment to independent journalism.

In September 2022, the Russian government named Gordeeva a 'foreign agent', a title that is often compared to the term 'enemy of people', which was used in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era.

Katerina's daily work continues to demonstrate her tremendous devotion to unbiased journalism during these very challenging times.

Product details

• Authors: Katerina Gordeeva
• Assisted by: Lisa C. Hayden (Translation)
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9780753560600
• ISBN: 978-0-7535-6060-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Ukraine, Oral History, History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Social History, military history, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, 21st Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Interviews, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Reportage & collected journalism, Social and cultural history, Modern warfare, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, c 2020 to c 2029, Invasion, conquest and occupation, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, HISTORY / Europe / Ukraine