ISBN:
9781879944268
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxv, 399 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als From words to war
DDC:
305.800947
Keywords:
Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- Sources Causes
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Propaganda Sources
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Information warfare Sources
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Disinformation Sources
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Ukraine Foreign public opinion, Russian 21st century
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History
;
Ukraine Relations
;
Russia (Federation) Relations
;
Anthologie
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Anthologie
;
Russisch-Ukrainischer Krieg
;
Russland
;
Presse
;
Desinformation
;
Information warfare
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Geschichte 2014-2022
Abstract:
The answers are presented here in the words of primary sources: public statements and reporting from political actors, journalists and commentators addressed to Russian-speaking audiences. Much of this content is published in book form in English for the first time.
Abstract:
Our aim is not to espouse or glorify the narrative of the Putin regime. Instead, we present it for academic study, along with immediate reactions to it, both laudatory and critical. Coverage starts during the 2014 Russian occupation of the Crimea and continues right up to the invasion. For added context, we provide an Appendix of statements and articles from Russian officials, as well as text from international agreements.
Abstract:
"This book seeks to answer a simple question - "What prompted the Russian-Ukrainian war?" - not through the analyses of historians and political scientists, but through primary sources: public statements and first-hand accounts of political actors, reporters and eyewitnesses. Within the vast inventory of such sources, we have carefully selected those that (1) were originally published in Russia, in the Russian language and/or in periodicals that serve Russian audiences; and (2) either represent or comment on the official Kremlin viewpoint. Much of this material is published in book form for the first time in English. The fundamental premise of this collection is that the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 was preceded not just by preparatory actions of the Russian military - joint exercises in post-Soviet space and the buildup of troops at the Ukrainian border - but by years of propaganda and persuasion targeted at the Russian elite and ordinary citizens. These rhetorical efforts emerged particularly strongly with the outbreak of what became known as "Revolution of Dignity" (2013-2014) and continue with increasing insistence to this day. Our aim is not to espouse or glorify the narrative of the Putin regime. Instead, we present for academic study concrete examples of this narrative, along with immediate reactions to it, both laudatory and critical, from journalists, public figures and others writing for the Russian audience. Most of the articles, speeches, interviews and reports collected here originally appeared in East View's English-language periodical The Current Digest of the Russian Press. Sources range from pro-Kremlin periodicals such as Rossiiskaya gazeta and Izvestia, to moderate publications like Kommersant and Nezavisimaya gazeta, to opposition media outlets (most of them now publishing from outside Russia) that include Novaya gazeta and Meduza. Since our purpose is to account for what led up to the invasion, the coverage in this book goes only through late February 2022. We hope that by illuminating the assumptions and mindset that led to the first major conflict in Europe since World War Two, the material presented here can offer scholars and other interested readers fresh insight into the power of words to move nations"-- Provided by publisher
Abstract:
"This book seeks to answer a simple question - "What prompted the Russian-Ukrainian war?" - not through the analyses of historians and political scientists, but through primary sources: public statements and first-hand accounts of political actors, reporters and eyewitnesses. Within the vast inventory of such sources, we have carefully selected those that (1) were originally published in Russia, in the Russian language and/or in periodicals that serve Russian audiences; and (2) either represent or comment on the official Kremlin viewpoint. Much of this material is published in book form for the first time in English. The fundamental premise of this collection is that the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 was preceded not just by preparatory actions of the Russian military - joint exercises in post-Soviet space and the buildup of troops at the Ukrainian border - but by years of propaganda and persuasion targeted at the Russian elite and ordinary citizens. These rhetorical efforts emerged particularly strongly with the outbreak of what became known as "Revolution of Dignity" (2013-2014) and continue with increasing insistence to this day. Our aim is not to espouse or glorify the narrative of the Putin regime. Instead, we present for academic study concrete examples of this narrative, along with immediate reactions to it, both laudatory and critical, from journalists, public figures and others writing for the Russian audience. Most of the articles, speeches, interviews and reports collected here originally appeared in East View's English-language periodical The Current Digest of the Russian Press. Sources range from pro-Kremlin periodicals such as Rossiiskaya gazeta and Izvestia, to moderate publications like Kommersant and Nezavisimaya gazeta, to opposition media outlets (most of them now publishing from outside Russia) that include Novaya gazeta and Meduza. Since our purpose is to account for what led up to the invasion, the coverage in this book goes only through late February 2022. We hope that by illuminating the assumptions and mindset that led to the first major conflict in Europe since World War Two, the material presented here can offer scholars and other interested readers fresh insight into the power of words to move nations"-- Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
PART ONE - FROM MAIDAN TO NOVOROSSIA -- Independence Square protesters pick up cobblestones -- Antirevolutionary peninsula : Crimea holds its ground -- Kiev tries to save Crimea -- For the ordinary Ukrainian -- Arrogance and paranoia -- The Crimea a Trojan horse for ordinary Russians -- Donetsk Basin proclaims itself a republic -- Why is it hard for Moscow to compromise with Kiev? -- Vladimir Putin : 'We have nothing to fear'-- Kiev threatens Moscow with countermeasures -- Ukrafghanistan -- Ukraine : difficult present, complicated future -- Strelkov switches focus to internal enemies -- The outcome of the Novorossia elections -- Kiev de facto recognizes separation of Donetsk Basin -- The Siemens incident : how Russia is losing its sovereignty -- Five stars : how Crimea marked fifth anniversary of reunification with Russia -- Sincere recognition - Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to recognize the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics -- Approving the agreements -- PART TWO - MILITARY PROVOCATIONS AND PREPARATIONS -- Passenger liner shot down over Ukraine -- Changes on the Western front -- Specter of the Russian Army haunting Ukraine -- Counterattack -- Withdrawal maneuver or distraction maneuver? -- Peace enforcement in Debaltsevo -- War remains inevitable; there is no stopping the tide -- 'Strange war' in Donetsk Basin -- Who benefits from escalation of conflict between Moscow and Kiev? -- The Black Sea : first blood of a possible winter war -- If war comes tomorrow : the real reason why Merkel sought conversation with Putin -- 'We know from experience what full morgues are like' -- 'Kiev needs a valve to let off steam'-- 'The Kremlin's calculations have changed'-- Threat to Russian realpolitik -- Russia unlikely to invade Ukraine despite ratcheting tensions, experts believe -- Alarming noise -- PART THREE - SETTLEMENT TALKS : FROM MINSK TO NORMANDY -- Kiev sits down at negotiating table, but without Donetsk -- Negotiations launched in Donetsk -- Negotiations on the status of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics may go on for years -- Another ceasefire -- Declaration by the President of the Russian Federation, the President of Ukraine, the President of the French Republic and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in suppport of the package of measures adopted Feb. 12,2015, for the implementation of the Minsk Agreements -- The same old story -- No one to monitor situation in Donetsk Basin -- Ukraine could fall under outside management -- Please come to the table -- Kremlin's peacemaking consent -- Why Putin endorsed idea of UN peacekeepers in Donetsk Basin -- All quiet on the Normandy front -- What was signed in Minsk -- Ukraine faces Georgian scenario : Normandy four summit results -- Donetsk Basin gets council -- Stumbling-block summit -- Russia makes last stand for mediator status -- PART FOUR - DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS IN UKRAINE -- President Yanukovich : 'The Supreme Rada is illegitimate' -- Unofficially recognized -- What Poroshenko is offering Donetsk Basin -- 'Great leap,' Ukrainian-style -- Ukraine turning into a potential military adversary -- Donetsk Basin not mentioned in new Ukrainian constitution -- 'Kiev's blockade of the Donetsk Basin a real shot in the foot' -- Minsk bites the dust -- Autocephaly to become canonical -- 'Moscow is processing the results of the Ukrainian election' -- Zelensky's referendum : Ukraine the main pig in a poke -- Three problems facing Vladimir Zelensky -- Zelensky team planning to redraw map of Ukraine -- Ukraine on the cusp of local elections -- Operation child's play -- The 'stars and stripes' course of the Ukrainian President -- PART FIVE - THREATS FROM NATO, REAL AND PERCEIVED -- Missile defense system in the Ukrainian steppe -- Ukraine outside NATO -- Missile crisis : are we in for a mew arms race? -- A secure world -- NATO keeps moving closer : only the military gains from budget war -- 'NATO is conducting maneuvers in Ukraine every six to eight weeks' -- War without victory -- Putting Ukraine over a barrel -- Eastern formula -- Russia has been warned : don't touch Ukraine! -- Forward to the past -- The West is unlikely to accept Russia's NATO demands - and the Kremlin knows it -- No, no and no -- Pressing demands -- U.S., NATO offer security dialogue in leaked response to Russia -- 'On the eve of war?' - appeal of the All-Russian Officers Assembly to theh President and citizens of the Russian Federation -- Pressing Answer -- PART SIX - THE KREMLIN'S IDEOLOGICAL PREPARATION FOR WAR -- Why there will be war in Ukraine -- Putin's Fulton speech -- President Putin's Crimean confession -- Shoring up an agreement -- Wild card -- Why is everything not as it should be? -- Sergei Lavrov : We won't leave Donetsk Basin residents in the lurch -- Putin preaches to his faithful -- Was there even a West? What Sergei Lavrov can be happy about -- 'The 'anti-Russia' project has no place in sovereign Ukraine' -- 'We are still a triune People'-- Putin's article is an ultimatum, but not to Ukraine -- Russia shouldn't negotiate with 'vassal' Ukraine, Ex-President Medvedev Says -- The waiting game : Putin's global strategy briefly summarized by Medvedev -- Offensive crime and punishment -- Right to sovereignty -- APPENDIX.
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