This book is a collection of personal reflections by scholars of different disciplines, offering a variety of perspectives on Russia's war against Ukraine.

When Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, academic life and other social activities in Ukraine changed drastically. Scholars who either stayed in their cities or were forced to evacuate gained first-hand participant observation experience of war. Their teaching and research have been interrupted, but they continued to reflect on social, political, and economic events in Ukraine. This book is a collection of personal reflections by scholars of different disciplines, offering a variety of perspectives on Russia's war against Ukraine. We immerse in the personal experiences and stories of researchers who reflect on their academic and analytical backgroundssociology, political science, international relations, and literature. This unique collection offers not only fascinating and shocking insights from Ukrainian citizens but also the thoughts and reflections of scholars of several fields that help us better understand the situation in Ukrainian society during the war.

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Dr Tetiana Kostiuchenko is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. After her evacuation from Kyiv to Germany, she became also affiliated with the Free University of Berlin and Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Kostiuchenko's doctoral research was on political elite networks in Ukraine before and after political turbulences. She is a member of the International Sociological Association, International Network for Social Network Analysis, and other professional association. Among others, she co-authored the chapter "Power Structures of Policy Networks" (with David Knoke) for the Handbook on Political Networks (Oxford University Press 2017). Her papers have been published by, among other outlets, Europe-Asia Studies, Historical Social Research, and Polish Sociology Review.

Dr Tamara Martsenyuk is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. After her evacuation from Kyiv to Germany, she became also affiliated with the Free University of Berlin and Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Martsenyuk's research focuses on gender and social structure including, among others, women's access to the military. She is a member of the International Sociological Association, Association for the Study of Nationalities, and other professional bodies. She authored, among others, chapters for the collected volumes Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine (University of Toronto Press 2012), New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm (Berghahn 2015), and other books. Her papers have been published in the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Problems of Post-Communism, Sexuality & Culture and other periodicals.