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20: Maidan and Self-Understanding with guest lecturer Marci Shore

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Maidan in Kiev, Ukraine

The main square in the center of Kiev is called the Maidan. It's an unusually large city square and it's an unusually complex kind of geographical space. In some ways that disfigured face, the images of Youshenko as a victim of this dioxin poisoning becomes the face of those elections. And at that point, Ukrainians come out onto the streets.

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