Is It a Political Dilemma?

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The conflict is often represented as fundamentally about regionally based identity. But Crane argues that this identity politics has a material basis. The concentration in the southern and eastern parts of ukraine of the heavy soviet industry dependent on the markets of russia and other x us. S r countries. How is that shaped the country's political divide? And then how is it that those materially based differences get expressed as a conflict over language, identity, culture?

An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko. Read Volodymyr's work: truthout.org/articles/ukrainians-are-far-from-unified-on-nato-let-them-decide-for-themselves/ ponarseurasia.org/how-maidan-revolutions-reproduce-and-intensify-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-political-representation/ lefteast.org/ukraine-in-the-vicious-circle-of-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-hegemony/ lefteast.org/contradictions-post-soviet-ukraine-failure-ukraine-new-left/ Tony Wood on Russia: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood/ Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig