Full Description
This book is a unique contribution to scholarship on the sources of the conflict in Ukraine. The volume brings together writers from Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia, many of whom attended a gathering of scholars and activists from all over Ukraine, held in Yalta, Crimea, just after the conflict in Eastern Ukraine erupted. Challenging both the demonization of Russia, which has become standard for Western writing on the topic, and the simplistic discourse of official Russian sources, this book scrutinises the events of the conflict and the motives of the agents, bringing to the fore the underlying causes of the most critical flashpoints of the post-Soviet world order. This volume offers a refreshing, profound perspective on the Ukraine conflict, and will be an indispensable source for any student or researcher.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal International Critical Thought.
Contents
1. The Conflict in Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism 2. Ukraine and Russia: Two States, One Crisis 3. The Donbass in 2014: Ultra-Right Threats, Working-Class Revolt, and Russian Policy Responses 4. Ukraine and the New Economic Cold War 5. Semi-Peripheral Russia and the Ukraine Crisis 6. Russia, the United States and Ukraine in the Long Economic Crisis: Assessments and Prospects for the Developmental State 7. Theses on Ukraine: Dialogue with an Emerging Leadership 8. The International Context: Russia, Ukraine and the Drift to East-West Confrontation 9. Russia: A New Imperialist Power?
