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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /421/ Who Are the Wrong Ukrainians? ft. Volodymyr Ishchenko
Description: 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:
class conflict in Ukraine as a legacy of the collapse of the USSR and the stagnation of the Brezhnev regime in the 1970s.Â
The role of the Ukrainian professional classes in the conflict and oversize influence of relatively small neo-Nazi and far-right movementsÂ
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