Ukraine’s Euromaidan: From Revolutionary Euphoria to the Madness of War

This book provides a critical survey of Ukraine’s 2013-14 Euromaidan Revolution - the ‘Revolution of Dignity’.Offering a considered analysis of the protest movement and the counter-protest movement, Ukraine’s Euromaidan explores both sides of a revolution that shaped not just Ukraine, but the world, as told by the participants themselves, including the author. Drawing on a varied and complex source base, including thousands of archived videos, articles, personal memoirs, and social media posts, as well as numerous interviews and the author’s own eyewitness observations of both sides of the barricades, the book examines the Euromaidan in Kyiv and Ukraine’s regions. It foregrounds the Euromaidan’s early marginalization of leftist voices, despite gaining international appeal and how activists and politicians failed to win concessions or mobilize broader masses of people.William Jay Risch shines a light on how escalating revolutionary violence badly weakened the state and pitted citizens a