{"product_id":"towards-the-abyss-ukraine-from-maidan-to-war-paperback","title":"Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVolodymyr Ishchenko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Yanis Varoufakis, author of \u003ci\u003eTechnofeudalism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUkrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTowards the Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishchenko has been among the left's most significant commentators on Ukraine since 2014, when pro-EU protestors toppled the government in Kiev, Russia annexed Crimea and pro-Russian separatists seized parts of the Donbass. One of his first thoughts when he read the news of the full-scale Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 was that no matter how the war ends, he will no longer have a homeland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat has happened in Ukraine ever since the Soviet collapse is a drawn-out process of de-modernization, and the downward spiral is getting faster. Ishchenko argues that the conflict being fought in Ukraine with tanks, artillery and rockets is the same conflict suppressed by police batons in Belarus and in Russia itself. The intensification of the post-Soviet crisis - the incapacity of an oligarchic ruling class in the territories of the former USSR to sustain political or moral leadership - is the root cause of the escalating violence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolodymyr Ishchenko \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Hoshcha in western Ukraine in 1982. He grew up in Kiev, taught sociology at Kiev universities and was active in the Ukrainian new left. He is now a researcher at the Freie Universität in Berlin. His writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAl Jazeera\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763869909280,"sku":"9781804295540","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f1148455bcef928391f37eb984d4df18.webp?v=1780240733","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/towards-the-abyss-ukraine-from-maidan-to-war-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}