The war in Ukraine has been fought with, among others, irregular armed groups since 2014—volunteers, paramilitaries, and mercenaries. Based on interviews in the Russian-controlled Donbas and with Ukrainian combatants, the contributions to this volume disclose various micro-dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and fighting. Who were these fighters and who organized them? Russia has been increasingly employing mercenaries as a way to conduct undeclared, but ruthless wars beyond her borders. Ukraine’s formation of irregular armed groups in 2014 was a response to the army’s initially glaring inability to counter Russia’s military intervention. Most of the irregular battalions acted from the beginning under governmental orders. They have never operated autonomously, but compensated for operational weaknesses of regular armed groups. The initially high power of irregular battalions derived from state support, the capabilities of commanders, social networks, and the faculties of the fighters.
Andreas Heinemann-Grüder
Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bonn and Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies. He taught at the Free as well as Humboldt University of Berlin, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Cologne. He has given policy advice to Germany’s Chancellery, Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Parliament, as well as the European Parliament, OSCE, NATO, and EU. Heinemann-Grüder’s previous books include Sowjetische Politik im arabisch-israelischen Konflikt (Deutsches Orient-Institut 1991), Die Spezialisten (with Ulrich Albrecht and Arend Wellmann; Dietz 1992), Der heterogene Staat (BWV 2000), Federalism Doomed? (Berghahn 2002), Die sowjetische Atombombe (Westfälisches Dampfboot 2002), Föderalismus als Konfliktregelung (Budrich 2011), Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung (co-edited with Isabella Bauer; Budrich 2012), Lehren aus dem Ukrainekonflikt (co-edited with Claudia Crawford and Tim Peters; Budrich 2021), and Osteuropa zwischen Mauerfall und Ukrainekrieg (co-authored with Ulrich Schmid, Angelika Nussberger and Martin Aust; Suhrkamp 2022).
Andreas Umland
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
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Maksim Alyukov
Kostiantyn Fedorenko
The editors: Dr. Alexander Etkind is Professor of History at the European University Institute at Florence, and taught at King’s College Cambridge. He is author of Eros of the Impossible (Westview 1996), Internal Colonization (Polity 2011), Warped Mourning (Stanford UP 2013), Roads not Taken (Pittsburgh UP 2017), and Remembering Katyn (Polity 2012) as well as co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave 2013) and Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (Routledge 2017). Dr. Mikhail Minakov is Senior Fellow at The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, and taught at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is the author of, amongst other books, Development and Dystopia (ibidem Press 2018), and co-editor of Demodernization (ibidem Press 2018). He edits the Ideology and Politics Journal and the website Focus Ukraine.
Julia Friedrich
Julia Friedrich is a research fellow at the Berlin-based Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) focusing on security dynamics in Russia and Ukraine. Previously, she worked as a civilian expert for the EU Advisory Mission to Ukraine in Kyiv. At GPPi, she investigates the consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, such as Russian occupation practices, the reintegration of veterans and IDPs in Ukraine, as well as social cohesion more broadly. Julia holds a dual masters degree in international relations and international security from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and SciencesPo Paris. She received a bachelors degree in social sciences from SciencesPo Paris.
Vyacheslav Likhachev
The author: Vyacheslav Likhachev holds a Master’s degree from the Jewish University in Moscow. He taught Jewish studies at Moscow State University and the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and worked as a researcher for the Panorama Centre, Anti-Defamation League, and Moscow Bureau for Human Rights. Likhachev is the author of numerous scholarly papers and newspaper articles on the Russian extreme right as well of Natsizm v Rossii (Nazism in Russia, 2002). He has been editor for the bulletin Antisemitizm i ksenofobiya v Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia in the Russian Federation) and journal Evrei Evrazii (Jews of Eurasia), as well as of a two-volume study of Russkoe Natsional’noe Edinstvo (Russian National Unity, 2005). He currently serves as editor for the Evroaziatskiy evreiskiy ezhegodnik (Euro-Asian Jewish Yearbook) and a history program on the Ukrainian Inter TV Channel.The translator and editor: Eugene Veklerov, PhD, is a mathematician born in Russia. He has been with the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1977.
Theresa Lütkefend
Theresa Luetkefend is an assistant director in the Atlantic Council’s Forward Defense program, where she leads the program's defense strategy and military operations portfolio. Theresa previously worked at the Berlin-based Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) on a number of security-related issues, including the reintegration of veterans in Ukraine. Prior to her time at GPPi, she spent several months at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. Theresa holds master’s degrees in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford and in international relations with a focus on strategic studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She received a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Humboldt University in Berlin.
Nikolay Mitrokhin
Julie Fedor is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne. In 2010-13, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the Memory at War project based in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge (www.memoryatwar.org). She has taught modern Russian history at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Melbourne, and St Andrews. She is the author of Russia and the Cult of State Security (Routledge, 2011); co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity, 2012); and co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013) and Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States (Routledge, 2013). Andreas Umland (ku-eichstaett.academia.edu/AndreasUmland), CertTransl (Leipzig), AM (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), PhD (Cambridge) is a researcher of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian politics with a focus on the post-Soviet extreme right at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/faculties/fac_soc/politology/index.php ), and the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies (http://www.ku-eichstaett.de/forschungseinr/zimos/ ). He is also initiator and co-director a Master`s program in German and European Studies administered jointly by Kyiv`s Mohyla Academy and Jena`s Schiller University (www.des.uni-jena.de/).
Leonid Polyakov
Natalia Savelyeva
Anton Shekhovtsov
Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov obtained his doctoral degree from University College London (UK). He is Director of the NGO Centre for Democratic Integrity, Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Central European University (Austria), and an Associated Researcher at the Research Centre for the History of Transformations at the University of Vienna. He is the author of New Radical Right-Wing Parties in European Democracies (ibidem, 2011) and Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir (Routledge, 2017). He also published numerous op-eds in international media, and several academic articles in Journal of Democracy, Russian Politics and Law, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, and Patterns of Prejudice, among others.
Oleg Zhuravlev
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| Contributions by | Andreas Umland, Maksim Alyukov, Kostiantyn Fedorenko, Julia Friedrich, Vyacheslav Likhachev, Theresa Lütkefend, Nikolay Mitrokhin, Leonid Polyakov, Natalia Savelyeva, Anton Shekhovtsov, Oleg Zhuravlev |
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260
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
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24.06.2024
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English
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978-3-8382-1777-2
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