TY - BOOK ID - 4878702 TI - The conflict in Ukraine : what everyone needs to know PY - 2015 SN - 9780190237288 9780190237271 0190237287 0190237279 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ukraine Conflict, 2014 KW - -Regionalism KW - Group identity KW - Conflit ukrainien, 2014 KW - -Régionalisme KW - Identité collective KW - Political aspects KW - Aspect politique KW - Ukraine KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Russie KW - Foreign relations KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Ethnic relations KW - Relations extérieures KW - Histoire KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Relations interethniques KW - -Ukraine Conflict, 2014 KW - #SBIB:328H263 KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - Human geography KW - Nationalism KW - Interregionalism KW - Russia-Ukraine Conflict, 2014 KW - -Russo-Ukraine War, 2014 KW - -Ukraine-Russia Conflict, 2014 KW - -Causes. 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KW - An Úcráin KW - I-Yukreyini KW - IYukreyini KW - Malorosii︠a︡ KW - Małorosja KW - Oekraïne KW - Ookraan KW - Oukraïne KW - Oykrania KW - Petite-Russie KW - U.S.R.R. KW - Ucrægna KW - Úcráin KW - Ucraina KW - Ucrania KW - Ucrayena KW - ʻUkelena KW - Ukraïna KW - Ukrainæ KW - Uḳraʼinah KW - Ukrainian Council Socialist Republic KW - Ukrainian S.S.R. 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Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's current crisis can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However this theory only obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial international dimension. The 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution presented authoritarian powers in Russia with both a democratic and a geopolitical challenge. President Vladimir Putin reacted aggressively by annexing the Crimea and sponsoring the war in eastern Ukraine; and Russia's actions subsequently prompted Western sanctions and growing international tensions reminiscent of the Cold War. Though the media portrays the situation as an ethnic conflict, an internal Ukrainian affair, it is in reality reflective of a global discord, stemming from differing views on state power, civil society, and democracy. The Crisis in Ukraine : What Everyone Needs to Know explores Ukraine's contemporary conflict and complicated history of ethnic identity, and it does do so by weaving questions of the country's fraught relations with its former imperial master, Russia, throughout the narrative. In denying Ukraine's existence as a separate nation, Putin has adopted a stance similar to that of the last Russian tsars, who banned the Ukrainian language in print and on stage. Ukraine emerged as a nation-state as a result of the imperial collapse in 1917, but it was subsequently absorbed into the USSR. When the former Soviet republics became independent states in 1991, the Ukrainian authorities sought to assert their country's national distinctiveness, but they failed to reform the economy or eradicate corruption. As Serhy Yekelchyk explains, for the last 150 years recognition of Ukraine as a separate nation has been a litmus test of Russian democracy, and the Russian threat to Ukraine will remain in place for as long as the Putinist regime is in power. In this concise and penetrating book, Yekelchyk describes the current crisis in Ukraine, the country's ethnic composition, and the Ukrainian national identity. He takes readers through the history of Ukraine's emergence as a sovereign nation, the after-effects of communism, the Orange Revolution, the EuroMaidan, the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, the war in the Donbas, and the West's attempts at peace making. The Crisis in Ukraine is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the forces that have shaped contemporary politics in this increasingly important part of Europe"-- "The crisis in Ukraine cannot be explained simply as an ethnic conflict. It was also or perhaps even primarily a clash of different political models and concepts of citizenship masquerading as ethnic strife. Nor can this conflict be understood solely as Ukraine's internal affair, because it forms part of Russia's challenge to the Western values and the post-Cold War world order. Different views on state power, civil society, and democracy are at the heart of this global discord. The EuroMaidan Revolution of 2014-2015 in Ukraine sought to complete the task of the 2004 Orange Revolution and, before that, the popular democratic movements that helped shutter the Soviet Union, leading to its collapse in 1991. In the post-imperial space that the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire once occupied, political models became amalgamated with national identities. The proponents of Western-style democracy and market reforms positioned themselves as patriotic Ukrainians seeking to turn their country toward Europe. Those nostalgic for Soviet-style authoritarianism and a paternalistic, all-powerful state mobilized in defence of the Russian language and Lenin statues. Nevertheless, the political and cultural differences among Ukraine's regions did not produce a war--Russia's encouragement of separatism and its barely-conceived military involvement did. Russia's opposition to Ukraine's Association Agreement with the European Union, its annexation of the Crimea, and its role in the war in the Donbas highlighted the conflict's international dimension. A failed state and disharmonious regional identities within Ukraine provided the necessary background for the clash, yet its true cause lay in the more assertive and anti-Western policies of Putin's regime"-- ER -