Aftermath of the Maidan. Ukrainian society two years after the revolution

Abstract:

Two years after the Revolution of Dignity, it was clear that hopes of a quick reconstruction and modernisation of the Ukrainian state as a political and institutional system had not been fulfilled. The resistance of the bureaucrats, politicians and oligarchs who make up the informal, corrupt systems had proven to be very strong, and the will of part of the political elite and the EU and the United States to implement the procedures they had suggested had proved insufficient. If not for the war and the economic collapse, which forced Kyiv to seek external financial assistance and political support, the modernisation of the state would have proceeded even more slowly and with yet greater difficulty.

• Primary Source

ESO: Key Source: Euromaidan - Protests in Ukraine 2013 - 2015 - Key source http://www.europeansources.info/record/euromaidan-protests-in-ukraine-2013-2015/

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