![]() ![]() ![]() He never managed to deliver the central demand of the revolution-justice-to this post-Soviet country of forty-five million. One can count the number of reformers within the Cabinet of Ministers on one hand, and there are real concerns that President Petro Poroshenko, despite putting a number of positive reforms in place, doesn’t want to go any further. “We are very tired,” leading anticorruption activist Daria Kaleniuk admitted in Washington last year. Four years after the Maidan, civil society in Ukraine is exhausted, most of the reformers who served in government are long gone, and the powers that be are distracted by next year’s elections already. ![]() Shore’s book couldn’t have come at a better time. Yale University history professor Marci Shore’s new book, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution(Yale University Press, 2018), captures the historic period surrounding the Maidan revolution that took place in Kyiv, Ukraine, from November 2013 to February 2014, when ordinary Ukrainians took to the streets and demanded justice and dignity. ![]()
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