https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Revolutions-and-their-Translators-Maidan-the-Conflict-in-Ukraine-and-the https://internationalviewpoint.org/Revolutions-and-their-Translators-Maidan-the-Conflict-in-Ukraine-and-the 2015-04-24T08:40:00Z text/html en Alexei Yurchak Ukraine Ukraine debate <p>Most accounts of the conflict in Ukraine reproduce the familiar Cold War binary. For the Russian government-controlled TV channels, Maidan (Ukraine's revolution of the winter 2013–2014) was a fascist coup that overthrew the legitimate government with the US imperialist support. For the liberal media in the West, Ukraine, and Russia, Maidan was a popular democratic uprising against an authoritarian regime that was rooted in the Soviet past. Both these accounts claim to draw on real facts and each obscures much in the real situation.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-2022-Ukraine-" rel="directory">2022 - Ukraine</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Ukraine-+" rel="tag">Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Ukraine-debate-+" rel="tag">Ukraine debate</a>