Serhy Yekelchyk

Ukraine

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is an updated edition of Serhy Yekelchyk's 2015 publication, The Conflict in Ukraine. It addresses Ukraine's relations with the West from the perspective of Ukrainians. The book also explains how independent Ukraine fell victim to crony capitalism, how its people rebelled twice in the last two decades in the name of democracy and against corruption, and why Russia reacted so aggressively to the strivings of Ukrainians. Additionally, it looks at what we know about alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, the factors behind the stunning electoral victory of the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky, and the ways in which the events leading to the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump have changed the Russia-Ukraine-US relationship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 142mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 271g
• ISBN-13: 9780197532119
• ISBN-10: 019753211X
• Artikelnr.: 60006729

Autorenporträt

Serhy Yekelchyk is Professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. He has published widely on modern Ukrainian history and Russian-Ukrainian relations.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Chronology
* Map
* 1. Why Ukraine?
* Why did Ukraine become a key reference point of American political
struggles?
* What is the Maidan, and what made it top news around the world?
* How and why did Russia annex the Crimea from Ukraine?
* Why did fighting break out in eastern Ukraine in the spring of 2014?
* Why did the Ukrainian crisis cause tensions between Russia and the
West?
* 2. The Land and the People
* What is Ukraine's geographical location, and what natural resources
and industry does it possess?
* What is Ukraine's demography and ethnic composition?
* Who are the Ukrainians, and what is modern Ukrainian national
identity?
* Is it true that Ukraine is split into pro-Western and pro-Russian
halves?
* How large is the Ukrainian diaspora, and what role does it play in
North American politics?
* 3. The Making of Modern Ukraine
* Was Ukraine always part of Russia?
* What was the medieval state of Kyivan Rus', and was it a Russian or
Ukrainian polity?
* Who were the Cossacks?
* Is it true that Ukraine was "reunited" with Russia in 1654?
* Who was Ivan Mazepa, and why is he considered a "traitor" in Russia?
* What were Russia's imperial policies in Ukraine?
* Did the Austrian Empire govern its Ukrainian lands differently?
* What happened in the Ukrainian lands during the revolutionary turmoil
of 1917-1920?
* Why did the Bolsheviks create a Ukrainian republic within the Soviet
Union, and how did they determine its borders?
* What was the Holodomor (the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933), and was
it genocide?
* Is it true that all the Ukrainian lands were united in a single
polity for the first time under Stalin?
* What is Babi Yar, and how did the Holocaust unfold in Ukraine?
* Who was Stepan Bandera, and what was the Ukrainian Insurgent Army?
* What were the Soviet policies in Ukraine during the postwar period?
* Who were the dissidents, and how did they contribute to the collapse
of communism?
* Why did the Chernobyl accident happen, and what was its impact on
Ukraine?
* 4. Ukraine after Communism
* Did the Ukrainians have to fight the Russians in order to secede from
the Soviet Union?
* What is the Commonwealth of Independent States?
* When and why did Ukraine give up its nuclear arsenal?
* What were Ukraine's relations with the West and Russia in the first
decade after independence?
* Did the presidents of independent Ukraine promote a united national
identity?
* What religions came to prominence in Ukraine after the Soviet
collapse?
* How did independent Ukraine become an inefficient economy and a
paragon of crony capitalism?
* Who are the oligarchs?
* How did the Ukrainian authorities and various Western agencies deal
with the corruption issue?
* Is Ukraine dependent on Russian gas supplies?
* 5. The Orange Revolution and the EuroMaidan
* What did the two recent revolutions in Ukraine (2004 and 2013-2014)
have in common?
* Why did mass protests against President Kuchma develop in the early
2000s, and who led them?
* What sparked the Orange Revolution in 2004?
* Was Yushchenko poisoned, and were the culprits ever prosecuted?
* How was a peaceful resolution reached in the winter of 2004-2005?
* Did the victors of the Orange Revolution manage to create a new
Ukraine?
* How did Viktor Yanukovych return to power, first as prime minister
and later as president?
* Why was Yulia Tymoshenko imprisoned?
* What caused the new popular revolt in late 2013?
* What role did the Ukrainian radical right play in the protests, and
what symbols did they use?
* What led to the high number of casualties on the Maidan in 2013-2014,
as opposed to 2004?
* Where did Yanukovych seek asylum, and how was the transfer of power
formalized?
* Was either of the two Ukrainian revolutions the result of a Western
conspiracy?
* 6. Russia's Annexation of the Crimea and the War in the Donbas
* What shared characteristics led the Crimean Peninsula and the Donbas
region to become conflict zones?
* What was "New Russia," and why did President Putin revive this
concept?
* Who are the Crimean Tatars?
* Why was the Crimea transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian
SSR in 1954?
* Did the Crimea try to separate from Ukraine in the 1990s?
* Was there a previous conflict between Russia and Ukraine over the
Black Sea Fleet, and how was it resolved?
* Why was Russia able to take over the Crimea so quickly and with so
little resistance?
* How is the Crimea being absorbed into Russia?
* Was the Donbas historically a Russian region?
* Is it true that a separate republic existed in the Donbas during the
revolutionary era?
* Did the Donbas stand out among other Ukrainian regions during the
late Soviet period and the post-communist transformation?
* Why did the armed conflict with the new Ukrainian authorities start
in the Donbas and not in other eastern regions in the spring of 2014?
* What polities did the separatists create in the Donbas, and why did
Russia not annex them outright, as was the case with the Crimea?
* Why did the Ukrainian army initially perform poorly compared to the
pro-Russian forces in the Donbas?
* Under what circumstances was the Malaysian Airlines passenger flight
shot down over the Donbas on July 17, 2014?
* How has the Ukrainian army performed since 2014?
* What has been the human cost of the armed conflict in the Donbas?
* 7. The War in Ukraine as an International Issue
* What sanctions did the West introduce against Russia, and did they
work?
* Did Western diplomatic mediation assist in the de-escalation of the
conflict in the Donbas?
* What assistance has the US provided to Ukraine since 2014?
* What role has the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe
been playing in monitoring the conflict?
* What is the Steinmeier Formula, and why did it become a stumbling
block in the peace process?
* How can one evaluate Petro Poroshenko's tenure as president
(2014-2019)?
* What are the consequences of Ukraine's Association Agreement with the
European Union?
* What were the results of the anti-corruption policies during the
Poroshenko presidency?
* Did the Ukrainian authorities meddle in the 2016 presidential
election in the US?
* What do we know about the involvement of Joe Biden and his son in
Ukrainian affairs?
* How can one explain the sweeping victory of Volodymyr Zelensky and
his party in the Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections
of 2019?
* What were the first steps taken by the new Ukrainian authorities?
* How did the Zelensky administration react to the attempts to embroil
Ukraine in American politics?
* How did the issue of election interference change the dynamics within
the triangle Russia-Ukraine-US?
* Notes
* Further Reading
* Index

Rezensionen

"Serhy Yekelchyk has written a modern history of modern Ukraine, one that questions nationalist mythologies and patriotic claims to an uncontested past and shows how making a nation requires the hard work of scholars and poets, soldiers and statesmen, and even Soviet bureaucrats. This is simply the best history of this new nation that we have!"-Ronald Grigor Suny, author of The Soviet Experiment