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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 Was a Kantian Revolution

The Maidan was a very Kantian revolution. We want to be treated as human beings, and we are going to insist on being treated with dignity. It was a remarkable moment for me as a historian because so many revolutions have been implotted as Edible Rebellions. You can implot the whole history of communism as a series of Edible Rebellion where each generation rises up in turn against the fathers.

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