Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Ukraine's Revolution: The National Historical Context and the New Challenges for the Country and the World (Viktor Stepanenko and Yaroslav Pylynskyi) -- The Structure of this Book -- References -- Part I. The Euromaidan and Ukraine's Revolution: Politics, Democracy and Civil Society -- Ukraine's Revolution as De-Institutionalisation of the Post-Soviet Order (Viktor Stepanenko) -- Institutional Traps of the Old Order Heritage -- What was Wrong and Why the Maidan? -- The Maidan as an Institution of a New Type -- The Transformation of the Maidan -- The Maidan as the Ideal Civic Community? -- References -- Ukraine's Third Attempt (Mykola Riabchuk and Andrej N. Lushnycky) -- References -- The Ukrainian "Eurorevolution": Dynamics and Meaning (Andriy Portnov and Tetiana Portnova) -- The Initial Spontaneous Protests -- The Failed Storming of the Maidan -- The Anti-Maidan -- Pressure from Russia -- The Organisation and Content of the Maidan -- Repressive Legislation and the Outbreak of Violence -- The First Deaths and the Regional Expansion of the Protests -- Unsuccessful Negotiations -- Death of the "Heavenly Hundred" and the President's Flight -- Conclusion -- References -- Before and After the Euromaidan: Ukraine Between the European Choice and the Russian Factor (Petro Burkovskyi and Olexiy Haran) -- Maidan vs. Anti-Maidan: How Ruling Elites Used Pro-Russian Sentiments to Fight Against Pro-European Protesters -- How Russian Aggression Destroyed Support for "Russkiy Mir" in Ukraine -- The Revolution of Dignity in the Context of Theory of Social Revolutions (Yuriy Shveda) -- Revolution or Munity? -- The Upper-strata Can't, the Lower-strata Don't Want -- Reasons for the Revolutionary Crisis -- How the Spark Became a Flame -- The Waves of Revolution and Democratization -- "Fueling Material" of the Revolution.

The Success and Completeness of Revolutions -- References -- Part II. Ukraine's Revolutionary Challenges in the European and the Global Contexts -- The Ukrainian Revolution in International Context (Sergiy Fedunyak) -- The Post-bipolar International System -- Regional Impact -- The Consequences for the Architecture of International Security -- The Challenge Facing the USA -- References -- The Beginning of Ukraine and the End of the Post-bipolar World (Sergiy Glebov) -- Six Arguments to Debate -- Conclusion -- References -- Is Neutrality a Solution for Ukraine's Security? (Iryna Maksymenko) -- National Security in the Context of Integration Efforts -- References -- Part III. Social Economic, Legislative and Humanitarian Issues of the Reforms -- Ukraine's Economy: Current Challenges (Olexander Baranovskyi) -- References -- The Issue of Power Decentralisation in the Context of Constitutional Reform in Ukraine (Olexander Kopylenko and Olexander Kostylyev) -- References -- The "Endless Story" of Local Self-Government Reform: Before the Post-Maidan Challenges (Valentyn Malynovskyi) -- References -- Ukraine's Migration and Demographic Situation in the Context of Foreign Intervention (Olexiy Pozniak) -- References -- Part IV. Regional and Ethno-Cultural Dimensions of the Ukraine's Transformation -- The Maidan and Post-Maidan Ukraine: Public Attitudes in Regional Dimensions (Olexander Vyshniak) -- The Historical Background to Political and Socio-cultural Differentiation in Ukraine -- Post-Maidan Changes in the Ukrainian Regions -- Annexation of the Crimea: Public Perception in Different Regions of Ukraine -- The Only Unitary Country and Rejection of the Idea of ​​Federalization -- Armed Conflict in the Donbas: Assessments of Citizens in Different Regions.

Instead of a Conclusion: Do the Ideas of ​​Federalization and of Separatism Have their own Foundation in Ukraine? -- References -- Public Opinion in the Donbas and Halychyna on the Ukraine's Upheavals of Winter 2013-Summer 2014 (Ilya Kononov and Svitlana Khobta) -- References -- Crimean Tatars' National Institutes under the Occupation: The Case of the Muftiyat of Crimea (Sergiy Danylov) -- References -- The Donbas: An Uprising of the People or a Putsch by Slaveholders? (Sergiy Klymovskyi) -- References -- Part V. Language, Media and Culture under Transformation -- The Problem of Bilingualism in Ukraine: The Historical and International Context (Yaroslav Pylynskyi) -- References -- Consequences of the Maidan: War of Symbols, Real War and Nation Building (Olexander Shulga) -- Conclusion -- References -- Vocabularies of Colliding Realities: A Representation of Conflict and War in the Ukrainian Media (Lyudmyla Pavlyuk) -- Vocabularies of Colliding Realities: A Representation of Conflict and War in the Ukrainian Media -- Branding the War: From "Hybrid," "Informational," "Organizational" to "Full Scale Aggression" -- "Terrorists" vs "Rebels": Horror-tales from the Terrorland -- Federalization - Autonomy - Annexation: Federalism for Whom? -- Measuring the Scale of the War: Local, National, Global -- 1) So, is it a civil war? If not - why not? If it is - in what sense? -- 2) Russian-Ukrainian Interstate War -- 3) "War Against The West" -- References -- Art and Revolution: Kyiv Maidan of 2013-2014 (Natalia Moussienko) -- Conclusions -- References -- Notes on Contributors.

The book, written by Ukrainian scholars, explores in interdisciplinary approach the revolutionary 2013-2014 Euromaidan and its social, political and cultural results. The contributors identify various factors of Ukraine's upheavals, explore their impact on the European and global politics and analyse the challenges of the reforms for the country.

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