On January 16, the Ukrainian government, headed by President Yanukovych, tried to put an end to Ukrainian civil societ
Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine by Timothy Snyder | The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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But a maidan now means in Ukrainian what the Greek word agora means in English: not just a marketplace where people happen to meet, but a place where they deliberately meet, precisely in order to deliberate, to speak, and to create a political society
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protests, until then entirely peaceful, became violent. Yanukovych lost support
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Glasnost and Perestroika: The Failed Reforms that Sparked a Revolution - YouTube - 0 views
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A History Day project which earned Honorable Mention at the state level in Massachusetts, this 10-minute documentary does a nice job of summarizing the effects of "glasnost" and "perestroika" as well as tracing nationalism and ethnic conflict and how all these things led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
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