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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Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world
Preface: A Wrong UkrainianEditorial Note20141. Ukraine Protests Are No Longer Just about Europe2. Maidan Mythologies3. A Comedian in a Drama4. From Ukraine with Comparisons5. The Vicious Post-Soviet Circle with Oleg Zhuravlev20226. Three Scenarios for the Ukraine-Russia Crisis7. NATO through Ukrainian Eyes8. Behind Russia's War Is Thirty Years of Post-Soviet Class Conflict9. Ukrainian Voices?Interview: Towards the AbyssNotesAcknowledgementsIndex
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A nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate glimpse into war-torn Ukraine
Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781804295540
Publisert
2024-02-20
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Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
186 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192
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