Volodymyr Ishchenko (@Volod

Volodymyr Ishchenko

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Volodymyr Ishchenko

@Volod_Ishchenko

Research affiliate at Osteuropa-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. Revolutions, left&right, violence, civil society, nationalism, class in Ukraine and beyond.

Dresden, Sachsen

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Joined January 2021

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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Nov 7, 2023
Sharing my recent papers that develop a class perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war: • Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine's 'East/West' divide (European Societies) • The Minsk Accords and the Political Weakness of the “Other Ukraine” (Russian Politics)
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Jun 1, 2025
Even junior scientists like my parents had a kitchen like this in Soviet Kiev without any assistance from their own parents. I would have to work much longer to get something like this on my own in post-Soviet Ukraine.
Business Ukraine mag
@Biz_Ukraine_Mag
May 31, 2025
Amazing to see absurd Soviet propaganda still being pushed on social media in 2025. Nobody had a kitchen like this in the USSR in the 1970s
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Feb 2, 2025
This is one of the many orthodox Marxist-Leninist groups that boomed in many post-Soviet countries in the last decade as part of the neo-Soviet revival. In Ukraine since 2022, they have mostly taken a revolutionary defeatist position and gone underground. /1
Marta Havryshko
@HavryshkoMarta
Feb 1, 2025
SBU boasts about uncovering a leftist organization allegedly preparing an "uprising" in Ukraine, encouraging young men to evade military mobilization and disobey commanders' orders. The comical aspect is that as 'evidence,' law enforcement shows books seized from the "criminals,"
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Jul 15, 2024
Not so widely in the former USSR itself
Bryce Greene
@TheGreeneBJ
Jul 15, 2024
It's insane that the fall of the USSR is still widely considered to be a good thing
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Mar 5, 2025
The Western "stand with Ukraine" is not support for Ukrainians as they are. It is support for a specific military, political, economic, ideological function that Ukraine has played in the crumbling hegemonic order. Ukrainians are supported only insofar as they fit that function.
Marta Havryshko
@HavryshkoMarta
Mar 5, 2025
"I stand with Ukraine," claim people on their social media. What does it mean? Do you stand with? : ♦️A scholar in his 50s, an oncology patient with an amputated pointing finger, considered fully fit for military service ♦️Relatives of Yevhen Kryvodub, 40, died as a result of
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Nov 21, 2022
9 years ago Euromaidan triggered the last cycle of the post-Soviet crisis process that culminated in the invasion of Ukraine. The dynamics and outcomes of this revolution, violence, the role of right and left were the main topic of my studies these years. Most important below
Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Sep 19, 2024
History students at Lviv University denounced a Ukrainian historian to the education minister for calling the Waffen SS Galicia "Nazi collaborators" and criticizing an exhibition glorifying the division and organized by Azov. True story. One of the many.
Marta Havryshko
@HavryshkoMarta
Sep 19, 2024
Students of my alma mater - Ivan Franko Lviv National University - asked the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science to "take action" against me, claiming that my "rhetoric" is "anti-state". Why?
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Oct 2, 2023
To be released by Verso in February. This is a collection of my essays with a long, partly autobiographical preface on what happened to the Soviet Ukrainians.
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Dec 25, 2022
My short essay in @NewLeftReview on the deficiency of the ongoing "decolonization," the "Ukrainian voices" identity politics, and what we could better do instead.
Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukrainian Voices?, NLR 138, November–December 2022
From newleftreview.org
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Nov 29, 2024
A kind of Western liberal who spent two years trashing "peaceniks" and "tankies" for not "listening to Ukrainians," now discovering that they are more in tune with the Ukrainian public opinion than he is, and lashing out at them for instrumentalizing alternative Ukrainian voices
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Nov 16, 2024
In retrospect, the positions that emphasized the priority of saving as many lives and as much of Ukraine's urban and economic infrastructure as possible were the only truly pro-Ukrainian positions.
Sopo Japaridze
@sopjap
Nov 16, 2024
Not surprised. War was beneficial for Russia and totally destroyed Ukraine. Continuing this war is beneficial to Russia not Ukraine. Why war must end and why we’ve been saying the war must end! Peace calls were interpreted as pro-Russian when in fact it was pro-Ukrainian
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Oct 3, 2025
It is not only that Soviet socialism historically inspired and enabled major accomplishments, revolutions, and progressive reforms worldwide. More important is that the legacy of the Soviet revolution is being reassessed positively today — both in the former USSR and beyond. The
Bhaskar Sunkara
@sunraysunray
Oct 2, 2025
Barcelona had socialism for a few months in the 1930s and it still inspires millions. Russia had “socialism” for 70 years and today it’s an authoritarian petro-state waging an imperialist war, with a tiny marginalized Left. Tells you something about its socialism.
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Aug 1, 2024
If you need an anecdote to illustrate what "decommunization" and "decolonization" are really about, this single story is just perfect. Much to expand on
EventsInUkraine
@EventsUkraine
Aug 1, 2024
The Ukrainian trident which replaced the hammer and sickle on Kyiv's Motherland monument last august is at danger of falling off because of corrosion and shoddy construction
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Volodymyr Ishchenko
@Volod_Ishchenko
Nov 4, 2024
I've been saying this for a couple of years: the projection of a homogeneous Ukraine "united" in an "existential struggle" for "self-determination" is the most colonial image of Ukrainians possible, reducing a complex modern society to an Avatar-style orientalist fairy tale.
Marta Havryshko
@HavryshkoMarta
Nov 4, 2024
Dear Western Friends, 📌Stop lecturing me, a Ukrainian citizen whose brothers serve in the UAF, other relatives are demobilized due to serious injuries, and one died in the frontline just a month after being conscripted, how I must support forced mobilization and struggle until
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