Historian William Jay Risch looks back at Euromaidan and Ukraine’s road from ‘revolutionary euphoria to the madness of war’
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Historian William Jay Risch reflects on the impact of Euromaidan and the subsequent events in Ukraine leading to war.
Twelve years after Euromaidan, historian William Jay Risch discusses his new book about Ukraine’s 2014 revolution, the Antimaidan counter-movement, and how escalating violence and Russian intervention weakened national unity.
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