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Volodymyr Ishchenko was born in Hoshcha in western Ukraine in 1982. He grew up in Kiev, taught sociology at Kiev universities and was active in the Ukrainian new left. He is now a researcher at the Freie Universität in Berlin. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Jacobin and New Left Review.
A nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate glimpse into war-torn Ukraine * Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism * The huge choruses of these times will probably go down in history as mere noise. Might the lone voice of Ishchenko then sound prophetic? * Georgi Derluguian, author of Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus * A brilliant cri de cœur from a Soviet Ukrainian searching the historical horizon for a political model beyond neoliberalism and regressive nationalism * Dylan Riley, author of Microverses * [A] pugnacious debut ... those wanting a better understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict would do well to check out this left-wing analysis. * Publishers Weekly *
