Volodymyr Ishchenko Towards the Abyss (Paperback) For Sale

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Title: Towards the Abyss
Condition: New
Subtitle: Ukraine from Maidan to War
ISBN-10: 180429554X
EAN: 9781804295540
ISBN: 9781804295540
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 02/20/2024
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Weight: 186g
Author: Volodymyr Ishchenko
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Military History, History
Release Year: 2024

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