Few recent social movements have been as consequential and controversial as Ukraine's Euromaidan. This sober and well-documented first-hand account by a historian of Ukraine not only retraces the protests' origins, composition, and evolution in vivid detail. It also reveals how the movement can be read as a microcosm of Ukraine's turbulent present, and how aspirations for democracy which the movement initially managed to evoke soon collided with internal political fractures and the external geopolitical pressures that have become all-too-apparent in the aftermath of the 2022 Russian invasion.

Paulo Gerbaudo, Senior Research Fellow in Social Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

This book is perhaps the most detailed account of Ukraine's 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests in English. Risch's attention to nuance and, at times, contradiction allows the reader to gain a more complete understanding of the significance of this protest movement for contemporary Ukraine, especially in the context of Russia's full-scale war.

Emily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard University, USA