Ukraine and the empire of capital : from marketisation to armed conflict / Yuliya Yurchenko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yurchenko, Yuliya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-.

Ukraine--History--1991-2014.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--History--2014-.

Ukraine--Politics and government--1991-2014.

Ukraine--Politics and government--2014-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ukraine and the empire of capital

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, [2018]

Summary:

Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments. Now, its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country. In order to understand these dramatic events, Yuliya Yurchenko looks to the country's post-Soviet past in this ambitious analysis of contemporary Ukrainian political economy. Providing distinctive and unexplored reflections on the origins of the conflict, Yurchenko unpacks the four central myths that underlie Ukraine's post-Soviet reality: the myth of transition, the myth of democracy, the myth of two Ukraines, and the myth of 'the other'. In doing so, she sheds light on the current intensification of class rivalries in Ukraine, the kleptocracy, resource wars and analyses existing and potential dangers of the rightwing shift in Ukraine's polity, stressing a historic opportunity for change. Critiquing the concept of Ukraine as 'transition space', she provides a sweeping analysis which includes the wider neoliberal restructuring of global political economy since the 1970s, with particular focus on Ukraine's relations with the US, the EU and Russia. This is a book for those wanting to understand the current conflict as a dangerous product of neoliberalism, of the empire of capital.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Map of Ukraine

1. Per aspera ad nebulae or to market through a hybrid civil war: survival myths of systemic failure

2. Capitalist antecedents in the late USSR

3. Social destruction and kleptocratic construction of the early 1990s

4. Class formation and social fragmentation

5. Neoliberal kleptocracy, FDI and transnational capital

6. 'Two Ukraines', One 'Family', and geopolitical crossroads

7. The Bloody Winter and the 'Gates of Europe'

8. Geopolitics, the elusive 'Other', and the nebulous telos of Europe

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780745337388

9781786801814

9781786801821

1786801825

OCLC:

1016918017