The road to the Maidan. The reasons for the Ukrainian crisis

The book of the famous Ukrainian political scientist and journalist, participant in the dissident movement in the USSR V.D. Malinkovich is devoted to the deep sources and background of the fierce and multifaceted political crisis, which erupted in Ukraine at the end of 2013-2014. The fact that the author was a direct participant or attentive observer of many events of the political history of Ukraine for the last quarter century adds a lot to the value of copyright assessments and conclusions. However, this is not the main thing in the book. In the five essays of the work of V.D. Malinkovich contains a balanced analysis of almost all aspects of the problem: the historical roots of Ukrainian "faults", the formation of Ukrainian statehood, nationalism, features of economic development, and the foreign policy atmosphere. Concluding the book, the author concludes: Ukraine was not needed at all and was even very harmful, but due to the reasons that this book was discussed, unfortunately, it was logical. ”