Ukrainian
Solidarity Campaign
Book
Launch and Discussion
UKRAINE
AND
THE EMPIRE OF CAPITAL
From
Marketisation to Armed Conflict
with
Yuliya Yurchenko
Introductory
speakers:
Lloyd
Russell-Moyle, Member
of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown
Michael
Calderbank, Red
Pepper co-editor
Tuesday,
16 January 2018,
6:30 pm, Room 16, Palace of Westminster,
House
of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Hosted
by Lloyd Russell-Moyle Member
of Parliament
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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 Ukraine’s, 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 right-wing 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.
Yuliya
Yurchenko is
an International
Business and Economics Department of the University of
Greenwich and
researcher at the Public Services International Research Unit. She is the author
of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital (Pluto, 2017) and a
contributor to the Journal Spilna (Commons), a supporter of the
‘Sotsialʹnyy Rukh’ (Social Movement) in Ukraine.
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