marci shore the ukrainian night an intimate history of revolution

Here the full meaning of “dignity” emerges only in opposition to two other words: proizvol and prodazhnost ’ in Russian, svavillia and prodazhnist’ in Ukrainian. The Revolution of Dignity is the name given by Ukrainians to the events of 20 that culminated in a massacre in Kyiv’s central square, the Maidan. His election comes five years after a revolution whose slogans included “away with the gangsters.”

He is a wild card, and despite that-or, rather, just for that reason-he is the hope of a country desperate to extricate itself from oligarchy. This spring, he won the real Ukrainian presidential elections with an extraordinary 73 percent of the vote. Zelensky is a politically inexperienced comedian who played a schoolteacher-inadvertently-turned-president on a popular television series. In the meantime, surely Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would do him the favor of investigating a rival clan, the Bidens?

A largely impoverished country, Ukraine has been on life support from the West. The war has killed about 13,000 people and displaced over a million and a half. The context is this: Ukraine has been fighting a war against Russian-sponsored separatist rebels in the Donbass for over five years. president has imported ‘prodazhnist,’ Ukraine’s distinctive culture of crookedness, where everyone has a price and politics has no value.Ī whistleblower’s report of a July phone call between two television personalities who became heads of state could be the provocation for impeachment that the Mueller report failed to be. Professor Shore is the author of “The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe.” She is also the author of “The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution.” The U.S. The following article written by Marci Shore, an associate professor of history at Yale, appeared in the October 12 issue of Foreign Policy.

Marci shore the ukrainian night an intimate history of revolution