Political Visions of Ukraine

<jats:p>For generations raised on the promise of freedom of 1991, the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv in the winter 2013-2014 were a sudden, electrifying chance to make that promise real. But what happens when hope collides with the complicated realities of politics, society, economy, and the competing against notions of history?</jats:p> <jats:p>Drawing on intellectual discourses from 2013 onwards, this book maps those collisions, reconstructing Ukraineșs Ȝnoumenal parliamentȝ Ȕ the constellation of voices that have vied to define the nationșs future. Bogdan Kolesnyk explains why Ukraineșs is not a single story but a composite of many, why neither liberal consolidation nor national stories alone provide a sufficient answer, and suggests how justice, reason and republican institutions might be the anchors for plural polity to endure.</jats:p> <jats:p>In attempting to understand Ukrainian socio-political reality on its own terms from beyond its borders, this book urgently enquires what kind of future is worth fighting for?</jats:p>