The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine

The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine
Author: Marko Bojcun
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2021-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004466304

Bojcun analyses the efforts of Ukrainian, Jewish and Russian social democratic movements to address the national question in Ukraine during Russia’s industrialisation, the First World War, collapse of the autocracy and outbreak of the 1917 Revolution.

Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine: Selected Essays 1990-2015

Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine: Selected Essays 1990-2015
Author: Marko Bojcun
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3838213688

The essays in this book explore the major developments, both domestic and international, that shaped the first quarter-century of Ukraine’s independence: the simultaneous construction of a nation-state and the privatization of its economy; a formal democratization of the political process alongside the capture of state institutions by big business oligarchs; their efforts to gain social acceptance at home while maneuvering between competing Russian, EU, and American projects to hegemonize the region; the impact of the financial crises of 1997 and 2008 on Ukrainian society and the national economy’s place in the world market; the growing inequality of society, the mass revolts in 2004 and 2014 against corruption and injustice; and the beginning of Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

The National Question

The National Question
Author: Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 1976
Genre: History
ISBN: 0853453551

Provocative writings on the question of national self-determination and its relationship with socialism.

Imperialism and the National Question

Imperialism and the National Question
Author: V. I. Lenin
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2024-01-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1804292729

Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, which went on to become a core text for the international communist movement. But Lenin also sought to break with the Eurocentrism of the socialist movement, which tended to look down with disdain at or simply reject struggles for self-determination, especially among colonized peoples. This volume, with an introduction by the renowned abolitionist and anti-imperialist theorist Ruth Wilson Gilmore, brings together the texts on imperialism and those on the national question to provide a window into Lenin's global vision of revolution.

Ukrainian Postcards

Ukrainian Postcards
Author: Owen Hatherley
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1914420500

An ebook on the threatened built environment of urban Ukraine, with all proceeds going to the CWU's Ukraine fund and Artists at Risk. This is a short, limited edition ebook, with all proceeds being divided between the Communication Workers Union's Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine, and Artists at Risk's Ukraine appeal. Today, during Russia's imperialist war on Ukraine, everyone is talking about this large, beautiful and multicultural country, but, when doing so, they're often repeating some poorly understood cliches and myths. Ukrainian Postcards, written firmly from the political left, draws on the author's writings on the modern architecture of various Ukrainian cities, written between 2010 and 2020, to build up a picture of a country that could one day be a model of how to live with a difficult past and a multicultural present - but which has been consistently undermined by politicians who use it as a cashbox and, above all, a neighbour who uses it as punchbag. Above all, at a time when Ukraine's architectural heritage is literally under threat — shelled and bombed by the Russian air force, day-in-day-out — it outlines just how valuable and special this country's buildings are, and how much we stand to lose with their destruction.

Marxism & Nationalism

Marxism & Nationalism
Author: Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher: Resistance Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2002
Genre: Nationalism and communism
ISBN: 9781876646134

Towards the Abyss

Towards the Abyss
Author: Volodymyr Ishchenko
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2024-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 180429554X

"Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate." –Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world Towards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishchenko has been among the left’s most significant commentators on Ukraine since 2014, when pro-EU protestors toppled the government in Kiev, Russia annexed Crimea and pro-Russian separatists seized parts of the Donbass. One of his first thoughts when he read the news of the full-scale Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 was that no matter how the war ends, he will no longer have a homeland. What has happened in Ukraine ever since the Soviet collapse is a drawn-out process of de-modernization, and the downward spiral is getting faster. Ishchenko argues that the conflict being fought in Ukraine with tanks, artillery and rockets is the same conflict suppressed by police batons in Belarus and in Russia itself. The intensification of the post-Soviet crisis – the incapacity of an oligarchic ruling class in the territories of the former USSR to sustain political or moral leadership – is the root cause of the escalating violence.