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Ukraine w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko

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Is It a Political Dilemma?

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?

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