ABSTRACT
Chapter 26 gives an account of the most recent example of a city square as a rallying point, the Maidan in Kyiv. Starting from Andrej Kurkov’s diaries from the 2013–14 revolution, this chapter outlines the history of this square, and ends up with a discussion of Maidan: Voices from the Uprising, a play by Natalya Vorozhbit in which she describes how the Maidan not only houses the crowd, but also gives birth to the Crowd. The protagonist is not the individual hero, but the crowd and place, the past and the present, including the national poet of Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko.
