Post-Maidan Ukraine delivered nationalism instead of the economic change protesters won

Evidence

There was definitely not going to be any “de-oligarchization,” as so many people had hoped a few months ago. The new government would remain just as tied to the existing political-economic elite, and its corrupt practices, as the last one. The economy was staying the same. What could they actually give the people as some kind of revolutionary victory? What had been earned through months of struggle and a hundred deaths? The post-Maidan administration could deliver a government that was more proudly nationalist and anti-Russian. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 517

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The near-audible silence of an elite that survives wholesale revolutionary upheaval by swapping its cultural clothes is a precise, real-world engine for fiction about a revolution’s hollow aftermath.
• XREF: connects to: Former Soviet elites converted state wealth into private oligarch fortunes in Ukraine. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 474; The Ukrainian Orange Revolution failed to change the oligarchical economic structure — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 476; Forced marketization reanimates ethnic and religious nationalism in post-Soviet societies. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 316 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Forced marketization reanimates ethnic and religious nationalism in post-Soviet societies. #expands (0.74) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 316
• Russification became official policy only after subject nationalisms had already emerged #qualifies (0.71) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 352