War and the Transformation of Ukrainian Society (2022-23). Empirical Evidenc
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Date
2025
Authors
Grushetsky, Anton
Paniotto, Volodymyr
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Ibidem-Verlag
Abstract
We are finishing this book in January 2024 (and are writing the introduction
after having finished all the other chapters). This is the 23rd month of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. Despite the hypocritical statements about the brotherhood of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, which were an important element of the discourse of the Soviet regime and post-Soviet Russian authorities, Russia's claims and manifestations of aggression against Ukraine have continued since the declaration of independence in 1991 (in the form of
trade and economic warfare, political pressure, interference in internal affairs, such as elections, artificially creating pockets of instability in certain regions, etc.) However, it was only in 2014 that the war took the form of direct military intervention. Russia invaded Crimea and then eastern Ukraine, where the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk "people’s republics" were created under the guise of "popular" protests and Russia actually occupied these territories, as well as Crimea. But at the time, Russia did not have the intention or resources to invade Ukraine as a whole. The full-scale invasion took place on February 24, 2022, with Russia launching what it called a "special military operation" with missile strikes on Ukraine, and troops entering through several directions, including Crimea and Belarus, and attempting to capture Kyiv. In this book, for the sake of simplicity, we will refer to the full-scale Russian invasion that began on February 24, 2022, as the war (although the actual beginning of the war is Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014).
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survey during the war, refugees, migration, Russia, Ukraine, monograph
Citation
Grushetsky A. War and the Transformation of Ukrainian Society (2022-23). Empirical Evidence / Anton Grushetsky, Volodymyr Paniotto. - Hannover ; Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, 2025. - 322 p.