Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action?

Original language description

The paper considers the EuroMaidan in 2013/14 as a misinterpreted revolution misjudged by the triggered consequences. Using the theoretical framework of a &apos;non-violent protest&apos; of the &apos;powerless&apos; as suggested by Jonathan Schell, I explicate the Ukrainian uprising as a short-time affirmation of popular power that embodies a peculiar type of democracy, namely &apos;civil democracy&apos; or &apos;radical democracy&apos;. It is stressed that upon the historical closure of the event, the policy-makers worldwide framed it according to their agenda thus depriving the people of their political agency and the event itself of its authenticity. Herewith the protesters lose not only any leverage in their country&apos;s governance, but also the monopoly for interpreting the events they enabled and engendered. Some legacy of the 1989 can be traced here in a twofold manner. The velvet revolutions in East-Central Europe also stood as declarations of &apos;radical democracy&apos;, which was commonly disregarded as well. The main trope for assessing the meaning of the 1989 has been the &apos;end of history&apos; claim by Francis Fukuyama, treating the former as a sign of the ultimate victory of the US and of the liberal democracy model. The paper aims to prove that the model of &apos;civil democracy&apos;, as it emerged in 1980s in East-Central Europe, presupposes a bigger role of civil society (the power of people) while restraining the state and the market rationality. It has important implications both for the democratic practice and the democratic imaginary nowadays.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

The Long 1989 : Decades of Global Revolution

ISBN

978-963-386-283-4

Number of pages of the result

21

Pages from-to

231-251

Number of pages of the book

284

Publisher name

Central European University Press

Place of publication

Budapest

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