the ukrainian night an intimate history of revolution

The months that followed saw an unprecedented overcoming of hitherto-existing boundaries: the Maidan brought together parents and children, workers and intellectuals, Ukrainian-speakers and Russian-speakers, Poles and Ukrainians, Christians and Jews. Who is ready to go out to the Maidan”-Kyiv’s central square-“by midnight tonight? ‘Likes’ don’t count.” No one then knew that “likes don’t count”-a sentence that would have made no sense before Facebook-would bring about the return to metaphysics to Eastern Europe. that day a thirty-two year-old Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, Mustafa Nayem, posted a note on his Facebook page: “Come on, let’s get serious. On 21 November 2013, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych unexpectedly reversed the course of his own stated foreign policy and declined to sign an association agreement with the European Union. The Ukraine attacked by Putin's army in the early morning hours of 24 February 2022 was not the same country it had been a decade earlier. Register for the Zoom webinar Yale University Historian Marci Shore The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University.The Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies.The Department of History and Art History.The College of Humanities and Social Sciences.Russia's War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective Presented By The Meaning of the Maidan: Looking back at the Revolution of Dignity, Eight Years Later More Information

The ukrainian night an intimate history of revolution