“Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War“ Mychailo Wynnyckyj I Book Presentation & Discussion

British-Ukrainian Aid hosts a book presentation by Mychailo Wynnycky, Canadian-Ukrainian Professor and a first-hand observer of Maidan, who shares his insights about the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity in conversation with Ukraine experts Professor Andreas Umland and Dr Olesya Khromeychuk. In his recent book Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War, published by ibidem/ Columbia University Press as the first volume of the Ukrainian Voices book series, Professor Wynnyckyj provides a chronicle of Ukraine’s Maidan and Russia’s on-going war and puts forth an analysis of the Revolution of Dignity from the perspective of a participant observer. In early 2014, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. The Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to organise, to act collectively and to become a civil society. Most prominently, they established a new Ukrainian identity: territorial, inclusive and present-focused with powerful mobilising symbols