The Zelensky effect / Olga Onuch, Henry E. Hale.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2023Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 404 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197698372Subject(s): Zelensky, Volodymyr, 1978-
| Presidents -- Ukraine | Ukraine -- History -- 1991-2014 | Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1991-2014 | History | European historyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9781787388635DDC classification: 947.7086092 LOC classification: DK508.851.Z4 | O5 2023Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine's leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, 'I need ammunition, not a ride'. Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv, ensuring their country's independence even as a longer war began for the southeast. You cannot understand the historic events of 2022 without understanding Zelensky. But the Zelensky effect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies: what makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian. This title explains this paradox, exploring Ukraine's national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country's first 'independence generation'.
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Previously issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine's leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, 'I need ammunition, not a ride'. Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv, ensuring their country's independence even as a longer war began for the southeast. You cannot understand the historic events of 2022 without understanding Zelensky. But the Zelensky effect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies: what makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian. This title explains this paradox, exploring Ukraine's national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country's first 'independence generation'.
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