9 The Foundations of Mariupol Resistance
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Why did "Russia" have such strong emotional connotations in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that it divided communities into "us" and "them," turned friends into enemies, and split families along political lines?Why did my respondents say that a civil war can erupt there?Some scholars attribute strong and emotional polarization of the society, reflected in Maidan and post-Maidan social interaction to preexisting and distinct sociocultural, sociopolitical, and geographical specifics of the region