Maidan and Self-Understanding (lecture)

Making of Modern Ukraine 20

We are nearing the end of my open course on Ukrainian history, “The Making of Modern Ukraine.” The 2013-2014 Ukrainian protest movement remembered as “Maidan” was one of the turning points, thus far, of the twenty-first century.

Obscured as it was (like so much in the 2010s!) by propaganda, the Maidan never received quite the attention it deserved. I…