Ostap Kushnir
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine in the post-truth environment, or Future shocks of the global village on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
Alvin Toffler and Marshall McLuhan: both are futurologists who theorized about the impact of information exchange on societies. In the late 1960s, Toffler came up with the concept of future shock, while McLuhan “invented” the global village. I dared combining these two concepts into a sort of “theory of everything” to explain political process…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited New dark times. A warning against the spread of Putinism in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoBook review. Kate Langdon & Vladimir Tismaneanu “Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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Ostap Kushnir deposited New dark times. A warning against the spread of Putinism in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoBook review. Kate Langdon & Vladimir Tismaneanu “Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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Ostap Kushnir deposited New dark times. A warning against the spread of Putinism in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoBook review. Kate Langdon & Vladimir Tismaneanu “Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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Ostap Kushnir deposited New dark times. A warning against the spread of Putinism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months ago
Book review. Kate Langdon & Vladimir Tismaneanu “Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Lysiak Rudnytsky’s prescience: Ukraine’s political turbulence and trauma of a “non-historical” nation in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIf we look at the past three decades in the history of Eastern Europe, Ukraine may safely be placed at the top of the chart of “unstable” states. First was the student-led Revolution on Granite in the 1990s. The outcome of that revolution was a resignation of entrenched high-ranked Soviet officials under the pressure of public opinion. Then, if…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Lysiak Rudnytsky’s prescience: Ukraine’s political turbulence and trauma of a “non-historical” nation in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIf we look at the past three decades in the history of Eastern Europe, Ukraine may safely be placed at the top of the chart of “unstable” states. First was the student-led Revolution on Granite in the 1990s. The outcome of that revolution was a resignation of entrenched high-ranked Soviet officials under the pressure of public opinion. Then, if…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Lysiak Rudnytsky’s prescience: Ukraine’s political turbulence and trauma of a “non-historical” nation in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIf we look at the past three decades in the history of Eastern Europe, Ukraine may safely be placed at the top of the chart of “unstable” states. First was the student-led Revolution on Granite in the 1990s. The outcome of that revolution was a resignation of entrenched high-ranked Soviet officials under the pressure of public opinion. Then, if…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Lysiak Rudnytsky’s prescience: Ukraine’s political turbulence and trauma of a “non-historical” nation on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
If we look at the past three decades in the history of Eastern Europe, Ukraine may safely be placed at the top of the chart of “unstable” states. First was the student-led Revolution on Granite in the 1990s. The outcome of that revolution was a resignation of entrenched high-ranked Soviet officials under the pressure of public opinion. Then, if…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Putin’s long awaited opportunity, retaliation and revenge in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBook review. Taras Kuzio “Putin’s War against Ukraine: Revolution, nationalism and crime,” CreateSpace Independent, in association with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, 2017
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Putin’s long awaited opportunity, retaliation and revenge in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBook review. Taras Kuzio “Putin’s War against Ukraine: Revolution, nationalism and crime,” CreateSpace Independent, in association with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, 2017
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Understanding Central Europe in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBook review. Marcin Moskalewicz and Wojciech Przybylski “Understanding Central Europe,” Routledge, 2017.
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Understanding Central Europe in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBook review. Marcin Moskalewicz and Wojciech Przybylski “Understanding Central Europe,” Routledge, 2017.
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Understanding Central Europe in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBook review. Marcin Moskalewicz and Wojciech Przybylski “Understanding Central Europe,” Routledge, 2017.
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Between Survivability and Crime. The Nature of Informal Practices in post-Communist Societies in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBook review. Abel Polese. “Limits of a Post-Soviet State,” Ibidem-Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8382-0845-9
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Between Survivability and Crime. The Nature of Informal Practices in post-Communist Societies in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBook review. Abel Polese. “Limits of a Post-Soviet State,” Ibidem-Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8382-0845-9
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Between Survivability and Crime. The Nature of Informal Practices in post-Communist Societies in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBook review. Abel Polese. “Limits of a Post-Soviet State,” Ibidem-Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8382-0845-9
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Intermarium: Why Great National Ideas End Up on the Backstage of Regional Politics in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIn the post-Versailles era, Polish leader Józef Piłsudski proposed to the authorities of Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus to forge an Intermarium union for the survival of their states. Piłsudski risked and pushed forward an intellectual speculation on how to strengthen subjectivity and sovereignty of the “young” states in games between major po…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine’s “island” identity: A rock of a nation, surviving all odds in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoYuriy Lypa stated in the mid-1930s: “The Ukrainian race is an island among its neighbours, an island with its own life, its own holy things and all-human values. Foreign and imposed spiritual values are worthless, and even non-imposed values are adopted in time, only if they pass the nation’s test… The Ukrainian race is an island, and this is its…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine’s “island” identity: A rock of a nation, surviving all odds in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoYuriy Lypa stated in the mid-1930s: “The Ukrainian race is an island among its neighbours, an island with its own life, its own holy things and all-human values. Foreign and imposed spiritual values are worthless, and even non-imposed values are adopted in time, only if they pass the nation’s test… The Ukrainian race is an island, and this is its…[Read more]
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