/421/ Who Are the Wrong Ukrainians? ft. Volodymyr Ishchenko
Added 2024-07-02 15:38:32 +0000 UTCUkraine, from Maidan to war.
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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:
class conflict in Ukraine as a legacy of the collapse of the USSR and the stagnation of the Brezhnev regime in the 1970s.
The role of the Ukrainian professional classes in the conflict and oversize influence of relatively small neo-Nazi and far-right movements
The meaning of ‘Soviet Ukrainians’ today and whether a neo-Soviet revival is happening among youth across the post-Soviet landscape
The difference between neo-Soviet revival and Eastern bloc ‘Ostalgie’
The concept of de-modernisation
The vicious post-Soviet cycle of passive revolutions and corrupt oligarchic regimes
Links:
Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, Volodymyr Ishchenko
The crisis of Soviet Ukraine, Volodymyr Ishchenko, UnHerd
The class conflict behind Russia’s war, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Lefteast
Russia’s War on Ukraine Has Already Changed the World, interview w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko, Jacobin
As Ukraine Expands Military Draft, Some Men Go Into Hiding, NYT
Comments
Fascinating discussion. Re the Nazi symbols having different meanings in diff places and different times, I remember seeing people wearing t-shirts with the swastika in the late-2000s in nightclubs in an industrial Siberian city and finding it totally bizarre.
Daniel L
2024-07-16 06:37:57 +0000 UTCThis was very illuminating and very depressing.
Mouldy L
2024-07-04 09:57:09 +0000 UTC
