Volodymyr Ishchenko

Towards the Abyss (eBook, ePUB)

Ukraine from Maidan to War

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Produktbeschreibung

Towards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishchenko has been among the left's most significant commentators on Ukraine since 2014, when pro-EU protestors toppled the government in Kiev, Russia annexed Crimea and pro-Russian separatists seized parts of the Donbass. One of his first thoughts when he read the news of the full-scale Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 was that no matter how the war ends, he will no longer have a homeland.

What has happened in Ukraine ever since the Soviet collapse is a drawn-out process of de-modernization, and the downward spiral is getting faster. Ishchenko argues that the conflict being fought in Ukraine with tanks, artillery and rockets is the same conflict suppressed by police batons in Belarus and in Russia itself. The intensification of the post-Soviet crisis - the incapacity of an oligarchic ruling class in the territories of the former USSR to sustain political or moral leadership - is the root cause of the escalating violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804295557
• Artikelnr.: 69784006

Autorenporträt

Volodymyr Ishchenko was born in Hoshcha in western Ukraine in 1982. He grew up in Kiev, taught sociology at Kiev universities and was active in the Ukrainian new left. He is now a researcher at the Freie Universität in Berlin. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Jacobin and New Left Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Wrong Ukrainian
Editorial Note
2014
1. Ukraine Protests Are No Longer Just about Europe
2. Maidan Mythologies
3. A Comedian in a Drama
4. From Ukraine with Comparisons
5. The Vicious Post-Soviet Circle with Oleg Zhuravlev
2022
6. Three Scenarios for the Ukraine–Russia Crisis
7. NATO through Ukrainian Eyes
8. Behind Russia’s War Is Thirty Years of Post-Soviet Class Conflict
9. Ukrainian Voices?
Interview: Towards the Abyss
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index