Ukraine after the Euromaidan

Viktor Stepanenko is Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester. From 2009 to 2012 he was a member of the Advisory Council at the Kennan Institute. His research interests include social theory, ethno-cultural issues and democratization. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.Yaroslav Pylynskyi is currently Director of the Kennan Kyiv Project Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He received his kandydat nauk (PhD) degree from the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His research interests include ethnic issues, migration, language politics. He is the author of over 100 publications in academic and periodical editions.

• Contents: Viktor Stepanenko/Yaroslav Pylynskyi: Ukraine’s Revolution: The National Historical Context and the New Challenges for the Country and the World – Viktor Stepanenko: Ukraine’s Revolution as De-Institutionalisation of the Post-Soviet Order – Mykola Riabchuk/Andrej N. Lushnycky: Ukraine’s Third Attempt – Andriy Portnov/Tetiana Portnova: The Ukrainian «Eurorevolution»: Dynamics and Meaning – Petro Burkovskyi/Olexiy Haran: Before and After the Euromaidan: Ukraine Between the European Choice and the Russian Factor – Yuriy Shveda: The Revolution of Dignity in the Context of Theory of Social Revolutions – Sergiy Fedunyak: The Ukrainian Revolution in International Context – Sergiy Glebov: The Beginning of Ukraine and the End of the Post-bipolar World – Iryna Maksymenko: Is Neutrality a Solution for Ukraine’s Security? – Olexander Baranovskyi: Ukraine’s Economy: Current Challenges – Olexander Kopylenko/Olexander Kostylyev: The Issue of Power Decentralisation in the Context of Constitutional Reform in Ukraine – Valentyn Malynovskyi: The «Endless Story» of Local Self-Government Reform: Before the Post-Maidan Challenges – Olexiy Pozniak: Ukraine’s Migration and Demographic Situation in the Context of Foreign Intervention – Olexander Vyshniak: The Maidan and Post-Maidan Ukraine: Public Attitudes in Regional Dimensions – Ilya Kononov/Svitlana Khobta: Public Opinion in the Donbas and Halychyna on the Ukraine’s Upheavals of Winter 2013-Summer 2014 – Sergiy Danylov: Crimean Tatars’ National Institutes under the Occupation: The Case of the Muftiyat of Crimea – Sergiy Klymovskyi: The Donbas: An Uprising of the People or a Putsch by Slaveholders? – Yaroslav Pylynskyi: The Problem of Bilingualism in Ukraine: The Historical and International Context – Olexander Shulga: Consequences of the Maidan: War of Symbols, Real War and Nation Building – Lyudmyla Pavlyuk: Vocabularies of Colliding Realities: A Representation of Conflict and War in the Ukrainian Media – Natalia Moussienko: Art and Revolution: Kyiv Maidan of 2013-2014.

"[...] the editors have compiled a varied and interesting set of contributions, presented from Ukrainian vantage points, that will be of interest to readers seeking better understandings of regional and crosscutting cleavages in Ukrainian society." (Jessica Pisano, Slavic Review, vol. 75, no. 2 2016)