Ukraine and the empire of capital : from marketisation to armed conflict / Yuliya Yurchenko.
Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments. Now its borders are threatened and civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country. In order to understand these dramatic events, Y...
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[London] :
Pluto Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Per aspera ad nebulae or to market throguh a hybrid civil war: survival myths of systemic failure
- Capitalist antecedents in the late USSR
- Social destruction and kleptocratic construction of the early 1990s
- Class formation and social fragmentation
- Neoliberal kleptocracy, FDI and transnational capital
- 'Two Ukraines,' one 'family,' and geopolitical crossroads
- The bloody winter and the 'gates of Europe'
- Geopolitics, the elusive 'Other,' and the nebulous telos of Europe.