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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 and the Emergence of Civil Society

There was a sense of an explosion of civil society on the Maidan. People were suddenly not drinking alcohol, which was extremely unusual in winter. An LGBT group that had a confidential hotline turned it over to protesters. There was also this sense of what Europe meant changed.

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