
From Servant to Leader
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President Zelensky is not only a showman and politician. He is also a political phenomenon through which history revealed something very important about Ukrainian society. This book is dedicated to Ukraine under the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky. It consists of columns, originally written for the Kennan Institute's expert blogFocus Ukraine. Put together, these columns constitute a chronicle of a society surviving oligarchy, pandemic, and war with dignity and resilience - in spite of all the challenges of recent and current history.
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Here is Ukraine's recent political history viewed as it unfolded, often unpredictably, through the eyes of one of the best scholars of Ukrainian politics, society, and culture. Focused on leaders, state policies, public opinion, and international relations, this is a compelling story of uncertainty and possibility evolving into a story of disappointment and then catastrophe mixed with resilience and hope. This is political history rich in contingencies, personalities, ideas, and emotions. Mark D. Steinberg, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMore details
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- Intro
- Annotation
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword: The Good Servant
- Introduction
- I. 1. Servant
- The start of the presidential electoral campaign in 2019
- Debates on war and peace in the presidential elections of 2019
- Results of the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections
- Expectations from the newly elected President Zelensky
- I. 2. Winner
- Delayed start of Zelensky's presidency
- Parliamentary elections and political cleavages in Ukraine of the 2019 summer
- President Zelensky establishes one-party majority
- I. 3. Reformer
- The first Zelensky's reforms and challenge for checks and balances
- Zelensky's Achievements after the first six months in power
- Zelensky meets Putin in Paris
- Political struggle and media wars in the winter of 2019-2020
- II. Master
- New Zelensky's administration: arrival of Yermak and Shmyhal
- Zelensky's version of perestroika and the oligarchs
- Ukraine's politics in the fall of 2020
- President Zelensky's personnel problem
- Ukraine's politics in the first half of 2021
- Zelensky's presidency at the two-year mark
- Zelensky starts the fight against oligarchs
- Waiting for the storm? Ukraine's political situation before the autumn of 2021
- Three decades of Ukraine's independence: outcomes so far
- The Afghanistan Syndrome and US-Ukraine Relations
- Growing disenchantment with President Zelensky
- Expectations from Ukraine's political processes in the beginning of 2022
- Separatists threaten Ukrainian sovereignty
- III. Leader
- The start of the Russian war on Ukraine
- First attempts of Ukraine-Russia talks
- Zelensky versus Putin: the personality factor in Russia's war on Ukraine
- The Kremlin's secessionist plans put Ukrainian statehood at risk
- The first two months of the big war in Ukraine
- Ukraine's government tries to balance military and socioeconomic needs
- Ukraine becomes EU member candidate
- Ukraine's wartime political struggle continues with a new twist
- The Russian annexation of Southeastern Ukraine
- The war changes the Ukrainian oligarchy
- Violent referendum in occupied territories of Southeastern Ukraine
- Ukraine in center of the militarist remapping of Europe and Northern Eurasia
- Further problems for Ukrainian oligarchs
- Fighting corruption in wartime Ukraine
- Further steps with Ukraine's EU membership goals in 2023
- Ukraine's historical moment a year after the start of the war
- The wartime constitutional process
- Political struggle in the first half of 2023
- The paradox of deoligarchization in post-Soviet Ukraine
- Ukraine and the rise of the middle powers in the global interstate system
- Russian local "elections" in the occupied Ukrainian territories
- Pros and cons of elections in wartime Ukraine
- Ukrainian society on the anniversary of twin tragedies
- The Ukrainian military assistance is finally approved by the US Congress
- Five years of Zelensky's presidency
- Ukrainian politics reacts to the US electoral drama
- Zelensky's six Independence Day speeches as milestones of his presidency
- Epilogue: The Three Ages of Zelensky's Presidency
- Key Literature and Sources
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