Seize the city, undo the state the inception of Russia's war on Ukraine / Serhiy Kudelia.
| Author/creator | Kudeli͡a, Serhiĭ |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xv, 321 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | How was Donbas occupied? -- Rivalry, revolution and Russia's intervention -- Imposed secession : from Crimea to Donbas -- "Russian Spring" in Ukrainian Donbas : how civil conflict started -- The rise of town militias -- Municipal authorities : between collaboration and exit -- Governance under the barrel of a gun -- From sabotage to resistance : how towns fought back -- Beyond Donbas : defeating separatist challenges in Kharkiv and Odesa -- Conclusion. Reassessing 2014 and ... 2022. |
| Abstract | "This book is the first microlevel study of the armed conflict in Donbas, a region in Eastern Ukraine, based on over one hundred interviews with its participants and observers. Focusing on the first six months of the conflict, it compares its dynamics in seventeen towns in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces as well as in Kharkiv and Odesa. In its explanation of the start of the conflict, the book bridges the divide between competing accounts which privilege either external or internal drivers. Instead, it shows that the Russian intervention gave an impetus for the war, but local actors created favourable conditions for its success and enabled Russian agents to organize the region's secession from Ukraine. The book also demonstrates that the region residents were far from united in their embrace of the secessionist agenda. In fact, coordinated efforts of civic activists and local elites in some towns prevented their seizure by separatist forces and proved decisive in suppressing separatist challenges in Kharkiv and Odesa. Ultimately, the book argues that successful consolidation of separatist control over individual towns depended on the extent of insurgent coercive capacity, ability to influence town administration and availability of allies among local elites, law enforcement and political activists"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024038477 |
| ISBN | 9780197795538 |
| ISBN | 9780197795545 pbk |
| ISBN | epub |