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Interview: Ukraine's Fractures

Author: Volodymyr Ischenko

In: New Left Review, No 87 (May/June), 2014

Assessment by a Marxist sociologist in Ukraine who demonstrated in 2000 against the Kuchma regime. Topics include: the role of the far right in Euromaidan (he argues that an organised and effective minority was promoting nationalist slogans); the changing of the social composition of protesters; the interim goverment; the cultural roots of the eastern Ukrainian uprisings for independence, and the election of President Poroshenko.

Available online at:

https://newleftreview.org/II/87/volodymyr-ishchenko-ukraine-s-fractures