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The history of Ukranian town Hughesovka, combined with memoir of a career in television documentary and a tribute to Welsh historian Gwyn Alf Williams. The author, Colin Thomas, is a prize-winning documentary film maker. Hughesovka (later Stalino and Donetsk) was a mining and steel town founded in the 1870s by Welsh entrepreneur John Hughes and 70 Welsh workers. Includes a free DVD.

About the Author :
The TV documentary series, Hughesovka and the New Russia, the making of which this book revisits, won Best Documentary at the inaugural BAFTA Cymru awards in 1991. Colin Thomas is a prize-winning documentary screenwriter and producer, whose accolades include the Celtic Film and TV Festival Jury Award; the Gold Award at Houston International Film Festival; the Prix Europa and thrice-over BAFTA Wales awards. His BBC Radio 4 drama documentary on the subject of this book, Hiraeth in Hughesovka, was broadcast in 2008. Reviews of his Documentaries The Dragon has Two Tongues ( its... uniquely provocative approach to history will have sent more than one documentary film maker... back to the drawing board,A" The Times); The Divided Kingdom ... the name of Colin Thomas... a guarantee of intelligence and scrupulous integrity,A" The Financial Times; the UK network-transmitted Border Crossing on Raymond Williams ( splendid,A" The Guardian).

Review :
John Hughes was a very remarkable man. In 1870, at the age of 54, he decided he wanted to create a town, and did just that. Moreover, his town was nowhere near his native Merthyr Tydfil, but rather in the heart of Eastern Europe. Together with seventy Welsh workers, and with the support of the Russian and British authorities, he created an industrial centre for mining and steel-making that still exists today. Colin Thomas' book is partly based on the 1991 TV documentary, Hughesovka and the New Russia, which he made with the late historian Gwyn Alf Williams. A DVD of the film, which won a Bafta award, is included with the book, and it is clear that in revisiting the film, Thomas has been able to retell and expand on the story of Hughes' town with the gift of the perspective of the last two decade's major historical changes. Through the history of Hughesovka, now called Donestak, Thomas is able to tell a bigger story; the rise and fall of the Soviet Union in microcosm. From Bolshevism, through Stalin and on into the post-Glasnost age, Hughes' town's fortunes mirrors those of the Soviet Empire through name changes, huge industrial development, persecution and eventual liberation. A book for anyone interested not only in one man's remarkable vision and drive, but also social and political history played out on a large stage, but examined on a very human level. Michael Nobbs It is possible to use this review for promotional purposes, but the following acknowledgment should be included: A review from www.gwales.com, with the permission of the Welsh Books Council. Gellir defnyddio'r adolygiad hwn at bwrpas hybu, ond gofynnir i chi gynnwys y gydnabyddiaeth ganlynol: Adolygiad oddi ar www.gwales.com, trwy ganiatd Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru. -- Welsh Books Council


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847711243
  • Publisher: Y Lolfa
  • Publisher Imprint: Y Lolfa
  • Height: 200 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Width: 210 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1847711243
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 7 mm


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