Ukraine Going From Maidan To War / Volodymyr Ishchenko

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin and sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko returns to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war and many of the misconceptions we may have regarding the ongoing conflict. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Jacobin and New Left Review. He is the author of “Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War”, published by Verso Books. We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Bigger!
0:07.0	Take a gap!
0:09.0	Are you not?
0:12.0	A good man! This is hell.
0:31.7	Yes, the past is uncertain and the future is unknown.
0:37.2	But there's no doubt about it that right now,
0:41.1	at this moment, this is hell 12 years ago, almost to the day. We were joined by today's
0:50.9	guest, live from Kiev to help explain to us what was happening with the 2014
0:56.0	Maidan Revolution, which followed the first Maidan Revolution back in 2004.
1:01.0	Since then, Trump has been elected twice.
1:04.0	There was a pandemic which still lingers and has a new variant out that is infecting many across the United States.
1:11.5	There's the invasion of Ukraine by Russia,
1:15.6	a genocide in Gaza by Israel along with the help of the United States,
1:21.1	a regional war, and now a U.S. president is threatening the end of a civilization.
1:27.0	So not much has really happened.
1:29.7	Today, our guest will argue that both revolutions, the 2014 Maidan Revolution, as well as the
1:36.7	2004 Maidon Revolution, failed for the same reason that many 21st century revolutions have
1:42.7	failed. He also views the current war in Ukraine that
1:45.7	many people see as starting with the Russian invasion in February 22 as beginning with the 2014
1:51.9	Maidan uprising. It was that uprising that revealed the class divisions within Ukrainian society,
2:00.1	class divisions that have been laid bare further
2:02.9	by the ongoing war of attrition.
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