Olga Baysha earned her PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Previously, she worked as a news reporter and editor in Ukraine. Dr Baysha’s research is on post-Soviet new media and social movements for democracy and justice.

• Introduction  1. The Populist Explosion as a Reaction to the Neoliberal Order 2. Euphemizing the Neoliberal Promise   3. The People vs. The Elites 4. On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real: Simulating the Political  5 “Do not Sell Our Motherland!”: Zelensky’s Land Reform  6. “To bury communism”: A Failure of Modernization Rhetoric of “Servants”  7. The Post-Political Tyranny of the Integral  8. Democracy-to-Come: A Perpetual Promise  Conclusion

Olga Baysha earned her PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Previously, she worked as a news reporter and editor in Ukraine. Dr Baysha’s research is on post-Soviet new media and social movements for democracy and justice.

• Introduction  1. The Populist Explosion as a Reaction to the Neoliberal Order 2. Euphemizing the Neoliberal Promise   3. The People vs. The Elites 4. On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real: Simulating the Political  5 “Do not Sell Our Motherland!”: Zelensky’s Land Reform  6. “To bury communism”: A Failure of Modernization Rhetoric of “Servants”  7. The Post-Political Tyranny of the Integral  8. Democracy-to-Come: A Perpetual Promise  Conclusion

Olga Baysha earned her PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Previously, she worked as a news reporter and editor in Ukraine. Dr Baysha’s research is on post-Soviet new media and social movements for democracy and justice.

• Introduction  1. The Populist Explosion as a Reaction to the Neoliberal Order 2. Euphemizing the Neoliberal Promise   3. The People vs. The Elites 4. On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real: Simulating the Political  5 “Do not Sell Our Motherland!”: Zelensky’s Land Reform  6. “To bury communism”: A Failure of Modernization Rhetoric of “Servants”  7. The Post-Political Tyranny of the Integral  8. Democracy-to-Come: A Perpetual Promise  Conclusion