The far right, the Euromaidan, and the Maidan massacre in Ukraine

Katchanovski, Ivan

doi:10.1111/wusa.12457

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“…Similarly, the Ukrainian government investigation found that kidnapping of Dmytro Bulatov was staged with his involvement. (Katchanovski, 2015b(Katchanovski, , 2020(Katchanovski, , 2021.…”

Section: Maidan: Mass Protest Revolution Coup or Regime Change?mentioning

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The Russia-Ukraine War and the Maidan in Ukraine

Katchanovski

2022

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This study examines the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022 and the origins of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the political transition during the Maidan in Ukraine in 2014. This transition of power contributed to the civil war in Donbas, Russian military interventions in Crimea and Donbas, the Russian annexation of Crimea and an international conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the West and Russia. This conflict escalated when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The research question is as follow: What is the nature of the Russia-Ukraine war and the political transition in Ukraine during the Maidan? This issue produced divergent narratives of this war and the Maidan in scholarly studies, the media, and governments. This paper uses political science theories of wars, mass protests, coups, revolutions, and regime changes and empirical analysis of various evidence to examine the nature of the Russia-Ukraine war and the political transition during the Maidan.

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“…Similarly, the Ukrainian government investigation found that kidnapping of Dmytro Bulatov was staged with his involvement. (Katchanovski, 2015b(Katchanovski, , 2020(Katchanovski, , 2021.…”

Section: Maidan: Mass Protest Revolution Coup or Regime Change?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Russia-Ukraine War and the Maidan in Ukraine

Katchanovski

2022

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“…The extant literature is divided over the importance of the far-right in Euromaidan, with some downplaying their role and others saying that their actions were more important than their numbers might suggest (Shekhovtsov and Umland 2014;Katchanovski 2020;Ishchenko 2016Ishchenko , 2020. However significant their role overall, such actors were heavily involved during the revolution and participated in high-profile activities, even beyond Kyiv, with one such significant occurrence being the so-called 'Maidan Massacre', in which more than 100 people were killed.…”

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Radicalisation, Foreign Fighters and the Ukraine Conflict: A Playground for the Far-Right?

MacKenzie

Kaunert

2021

Social Sciences

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Ukraine has been viewed by some as having become a training ground, networking opportunity, and general hub for the far-right due to the conflict in the east of the country, which began in 2014. With this type of terrorism on the rise in the West and events like the storming of the US Capitol Building in January 2021 fresh in the memory, it should come as no surprise that any such possibilities will generate concern. To investigate the types and extent of the threats posed by participants in the Ukraine conflict, we scrutinise the activities of a few alumni that we know of to date, as well as highlighting neglected historical episodes of right-wing fighters. We make three arguments here based on occurrences so far. Firstly, we know little about far-right foreign fighters and more attention needs to be paid to historical instances of the phenomenon. Secondly, some limited but diverse threats have already arisen from the Ukraine conflict and others may emerge in the future, but it would be unwise to overplay and homogenise the problem. Finally, it is Ukraine itself that probably faces the greatest challenges from its domestic far-right, although, if left unchecked, it may affect others in providing a space for, and permitting the growth of, connections with like-minded individuals and groups based elsewhere. Despite our warning about exaggerating the problem, Western security services should be taking the far-right very seriously at present, such as in relation to potential infiltration of them by such elements.

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“…29 The party officially claimed 19 members killed in the Maidan events (the most of any organization) and around 100 wounded (Svoboda press-service, 2015). Party activists and members of local authorities played the leading roles in polarizing attacks on Lenin monuments, occupations of the state and public buildings in Kiev and in the regions in January, and in the actual taking of power in the western regions in February 2014 (Katchanovski, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“… 16. Most notably, the assault on the presidential administration on December 1 after Kiev protest camp dispersal (Kapranovy Brothers, 2017, pp. 58–62; Katchanovski, 2020, p. 12; Likhachev, 2015, pp. 264–265). …”

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Insufficiently diverse: The problem of nonviolent leverage and radicalization of Ukraine’s Maidan uprising, 2013–2014

Ishchenko

2020

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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The article explains the violent radicalization of the initially peaceful Maidan uprising in January 2014 as the result of failure to build efficient leverage against Viktor Yanukovych with nonviolent methods. Maidan lacked critical diversity of nonviolent tactics insofar as directly disruptive methods of noncooperation (e.g., strikes and boycott) remained small-scale and inefficient. The Maidan protest coalition primarily lacked social-organizational resources, i.e. authoritative civil society organizations and strong labor movement, for developing nonviolent leverage that was partially connected to gaps in ideological and regional diversity and partially to unfavorable structural conditions. However, radical nationalists actively participating in the protests possessed a unique combination of resources for initiating and diffusing efficient, coordinated, and strategic violence when it became legitimated by intensifying repressions and disillusionment in the incapacity of the oppositional political parties to propose an efficient strategy against the government. Violent radicalization facilitated geographical expansion of disruption via occupations of governmental buildings in western and central Ukrainian regions that the state was ultimately incapable of containing.

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The far right, the Euromaidan, and the Maidan massacre in Ukraine

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

The Russia-Ukraine War and the Maidan in Ukraine

The Russia-Ukraine War and the Maidan in Ukraine

Radicalisation, Foreign Fighters and the Ukraine Conflict: A Playground for the Far-Right?

Insufficiently diverse: The problem of nonviolent leverage and radicalization of Ukraine’s Maidan uprising, 2013–2014

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