Sharing my recent papers that develop a class perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war: • Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine's 'East/West' divide (European Societies) • The Minsk Accords and the Political Weakness of the “Other Ukraine” (Russian Politics)

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@B_Lebanidze @BrankoMilan The question is whether local elites can really offer middle-class careers, incomes, and status to a significant portion of the pro-Western middle class. They did not become pro-Western simply because of "values". They saw Western democracy as personal and collective advance.

@AlexGeo82372439 No. Nuland was talking about $5 bln spent on "democracy promotion" in Ukraine during 20 years before 2013. Now USAID spends more in just one year.

@AlexGeo82372439 No

@keithgessen The outcomes of dismantling US soft power could be different in different parts of the world and for different classes.

@failure1991 @BrankoMilan I agree. But I mean not most but some.

@tothcsabatibor The Visegrad Four were perceived as success stories of post-socialist transition that post-Soviet countries should learn from and emulate up until the late 2000s.

.@Vinncent: To quote a Ukrainian sociologist, Volodymyr Ishchenko, the circuit of “failed” revolutions that emerge in response to the real crisis of representation–or of hegemony in the case of post-Soviet countries–simply reproduce and deepen the crisis.

@BrankoMilan It is also possible that some sections will try to root their politics and public careers in the interests of the local subaltern classes and develop organic civil societies.This could be an opportunity for the independent left in the region. /8