Maidan Ukraine's Democratic Revolution
Wilson, Sophia
Maidan Ukraine's Democratic Revolution Sophia Wilson - Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 2026 - 328 Seiten - McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance 11 .
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Figures and Tables ixAcknowledgments xiii1 Introduction 32 State-Society Dialogue, Part I: 30 November-31 December 2013 413 State-Society Dialogue, Part II: January-February 2014 854 Grassroots Movements as State-Society and Intra-Society Dialogue 1225 Revolutionary Socialization and Change 1786 Conclusion: Revolution as State-Society and Intra-Society Dialogue 212Epilogue: The Maidan and Kremlin Propaganda 236Appendices1 The Heavenly Hundred - Maidan Casualties 2492 Survey Demographics 2523 Number of Protesters and Protester Injuries 254Notes 265Works Cited 293Index 325
The 2013-14 Maidan Revolution, or Revolution of Dignity, was far more than a series of protests: the coalescence of complex social networks formed a powerful grassroots movement that restored democracy to a country slipping into authoritarianism. Maidan gives a carefully researched account of the underbelly of the resistance process, investigating how participants self-organized to create the resistance, why the peaceful movement eventually turned to violence, and how the revolutionary process changed those who came to change the country.Democratic revolution is a state-society dialogue about rights, and the regime that results depends on the ideas negotiated during revolutionary socialization. Offering an unparalleled opportunity to see that negotiation in action, Maidan draws on more than one hundred personal interviews, oral histories, legal documents, and court hearings. The Ukrainian state used violence and violations of due process to suppress the resistance, thereby declaring new boundaries in rights relations. In turn, the people pushed back in multiple arenas - the protest square, courtrooms, hospitals, churches, and media - to successfully challenge the constitutionality of the states actions.Western media accounts tend to oversimplify the Revolution of Dignity as backlash against President Viktor Yanukovychs decision not to sign a European Union agreement. The reality had far deeper implications for the geopolitics of the region. Sophia Wilsons account of the revolution, and the Kremlin propaganda about it, underscores why it is impossible to understand Russias invasion of Ukraine without first understanding what fuelled the Maidan: the affirmation of democracy and the rooting out of Russian puppet authoritarianism.
9780228027386
2013-2014
Euromaidan
Ukraine
Maidan Ukraine's Democratic Revolution Sophia Wilson - Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 2026 - 328 Seiten - McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance 11 .
E-Book / Zugriff nur im Lesesaal
Figures and Tables ixAcknowledgments xiii1 Introduction 32 State-Society Dialogue, Part I: 30 November-31 December 2013 413 State-Society Dialogue, Part II: January-February 2014 854 Grassroots Movements as State-Society and Intra-Society Dialogue 1225 Revolutionary Socialization and Change 1786 Conclusion: Revolution as State-Society and Intra-Society Dialogue 212Epilogue: The Maidan and Kremlin Propaganda 236Appendices1 The Heavenly Hundred - Maidan Casualties 2492 Survey Demographics 2523 Number of Protesters and Protester Injuries 254Notes 265Works Cited 293Index 325
The 2013-14 Maidan Revolution, or Revolution of Dignity, was far more than a series of protests: the coalescence of complex social networks formed a powerful grassroots movement that restored democracy to a country slipping into authoritarianism. Maidan gives a carefully researched account of the underbelly of the resistance process, investigating how participants self-organized to create the resistance, why the peaceful movement eventually turned to violence, and how the revolutionary process changed those who came to change the country.Democratic revolution is a state-society dialogue about rights, and the regime that results depends on the ideas negotiated during revolutionary socialization. Offering an unparalleled opportunity to see that negotiation in action, Maidan draws on more than one hundred personal interviews, oral histories, legal documents, and court hearings. The Ukrainian state used violence and violations of due process to suppress the resistance, thereby declaring new boundaries in rights relations. In turn, the people pushed back in multiple arenas - the protest square, courtrooms, hospitals, churches, and media - to successfully challenge the constitutionality of the states actions.Western media accounts tend to oversimplify the Revolution of Dignity as backlash against President Viktor Yanukovychs decision not to sign a European Union agreement. The reality had far deeper implications for the geopolitics of the region. Sophia Wilsons account of the revolution, and the Kremlin propaganda about it, underscores why it is impossible to understand Russias invasion of Ukraine without first understanding what fuelled the Maidan: the affirmation of democracy and the rooting out of Russian puppet authoritarianism.
9780228027386
2013-2014
Euromaidan
Ukraine