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1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Unfinished Europe; 2008: The New Year Zero; Putin Returns; Institutional Europe Enlarges; Post-modern Europe; Post-modern Russia; Economic Europe Stagnates; Energy Dependency; America Retrenches; Competitive Reset; Europe and Russia; Russia's 'Humiliation'; The Effect on Eastern Europe; European Neighbourhood Policy, Russian Neighbourhood Policy; Other Options for Eastern Europe; The Rise of Other Powers; The Vilnius Summit; Conclusion; 2 Russia Putinesca; Russia's Virtual Politics; Russia's Virtual State. |
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MedvedevPutin Stumbles and Recovers, 2011-12; Putin's Conservative Values Project; Geopolitics; Russian Neighbourhood Policy; Information War; Conclusion; 3 Yanukovych's Ukraine; The Background; The First Revolution; The Orange Soap Opera; Russia's Role; Orange Government, 2005-10; The 2010 Election; Breaking the Formal Rules; Political Prosecutions; Breaking the Informal Rules; How Corruption Worked; Mezhyhirya-Stan; No Cover Story; The 2012 Elections; The Run-up to Vilnius; The Final Breakdown; Conclusion; 4 Maidan 2.0; Demonstration, But Low Expectation; Spot the Fascist. |
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The Maidan Becomes a CampWho Were the Demonstrators?; Tactics; Staccato Repression; The Titushki; The Russia Agreement; Could the Maidan Have Fizzled Out?; The Dictatorship Laws; The Battles on Hrushevsky Street; The Regions; Zig-Zag; Conclusion; 5 The Uprising; Tuesday, 18 February; Thursday, 20 February; Friday, 21 February; Saturday, 22 February -- Yanukovych's Flight to Kharkiv; To Crimea, via Donetsk; The Aftermath in Kiev; Paradigms of Resistance; Conclusion; 6 Crimea; Island Crimea: Always a Melting Pot; The Crimean Tatars; Crimea After 1991; Crimea under Yanukovych. |
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Surkov's Footprints?The Crimean Coup; The Military Operation; The 'Referendum'; The Pirate Republic; The Crimean Tatars as Ukraine's Last Hope; Strategic Implications; Conclusion; 7 The Eastern Imbroglio; The Geopolitics of the Donbas; Burden or Jewel?; 'New Russia'; The 'Family'; The Locals; Russia's Role; Akhmetov's Dangerous Game; The Passive-Aggressive Donbas; Boyars versus Otamans; Anarchy in East Ukraine; The Anti-Terrorist Operation; The Paradoxes of Hybrid War; Flight MH17; Convoys; Massacre at Ilovaisk; Conclusion; 8 Ukraine's Unfinished Revolution, or a Revolution Barely Begun? |
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The 'Maidan' after the MaidanDisorder; The New Government; The Birth of a New Political Nation; Poroshenko Becomes President; Promised and Stalled Reform; Limited 'Lustration'; What Future for the Oligarchy?; Russian Pressure, Russian Influence; Piecemeal Reform; Conclusion; 9 Other Hotspots; Russia and Its Neighbours; Moldova; Russian Pressure Points; Georgia; Challenges from Russia; The Baltic States; Russian Influence; The Post-modern Phase; Belarus; Armenia and Azerbaijan; Wider Ripples; Conclusion; 10 Russia versus the West; What Did Putin Want?; Blowback: The Russian Question. |
| Summary |
A leading Ukraine specialist and firsthand witness to the 2014 Kiev Uprising analyzes the world's newest flashpoint The aftereffects of the February 2014 Uprising in Ukraine are still reverberating around the world. The consequences of the popular rebellion and Russian President Putin's attempt to strangle it remain uncertain. In this book, Andrew Wilson combines a spellbinding, on-the-scene account of the Kiev Uprising with a deeply informed analysis of what precipitated the events, what has developed in subsequent months, and why the story is far from over. Wilson situates Ukraine's February insurgence within Russia's expansionist ambitions throughout the previous decade. He reveals how President Putin's extravagant spending to develop soft power in all parts of Europe was aided by wishful thinking in the EU and American diplomatic inattention, and how Putin's agenda continues to be widely misunderstood in the West. The author then examines events in the wake of the Uprising-the military coup in Crimea, the election of President Petro Poroshenko, the Malaysia Airlines tragedy, rising tensions among all of Russia's neighbors, both friend and foe, and more. Ukraine Crisis provides an important, accurate record of events that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014. It also rings a clear warning that the unresolved problems of the region have implications well beyond Ukrainian borders. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ukraine -- History -- 1991-
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Ukraine. |
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History. |
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1991- |
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Ukraine -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
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International relations. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Ukraine.
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Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-
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Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-
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Russo-Ukrainian War (2014-) |
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Demonstrations -- Ukraine -- Kyïv.
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Revolutions -- Ukraine -- Kyïv.
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Revolutions. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. |
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Demonstrations. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics. |
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Ukraine -- Kyïv. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. |
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Diplomatic relations. |
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Ukraine Conflict (2014-) |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1991 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilson, Andrew, 1961- Ukraine crisis. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014] 9780300211597 (DLC) 2014950580 (OCoLC)890160938 |
| ISBN |
9780300212921 (electronic book) |
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0300212925 (electronic book) |
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9780300211597 (paperback) |
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0300211597 (paperback) |
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