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Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Ukraine, from Maidan to war.
[For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast]
Berlin-based Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko joins us to talk about his new book, Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War and his dissection of the war and the underlying political crisis in Ukraine. We discuss:
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class conflict in Ukraine as a legacy of the collapse of the USSR and the stagnation of the Brezhnev regime in the 1970s.
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The role of the Ukrainian professional classes in the conflict and oversize influence of relatively small neo-Nazi and far-right movements
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The meaning of ‘Soviet Ukrainians’ today and whether a neo-Soviet revival is happening among youth across the post-Soviet landscape
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The difference between neo-Soviet revival and Eastern bloc ‘Ostalgie’
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The concept of de-modernisation
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The vicious post-Soviet cycle of passive revolutions and corrupt oligarchic regimes
Links:
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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, Volodymyr Ishchenko
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The crisis of Soviet Ukraine, Volodymyr Ishchenko, UnHerd
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The class conflict behind Russia’s war, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Lefteast
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Russia’s War on Ukraine Has Already Changed the World, interview w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko, Jacobin
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As Ukraine Expands Military Draft, Some Men Go Into Hiding, NYT
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