In Their Own Words

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1909-7
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Taschenbuch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Ukrainian Voices

This collection of essays and articles, written between 2019 and 2023 for such outlets as The Daily Beast and The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), illuminates recent Russian international affairs through the lens of Moscow’s propaganda tactics. For more than two decades, the Kremlin’s agitators have been tasked to lay, in advance, the groundwork for various domestic and foreign actions by the regime of Vladimir Putin. Thus, Russian state-controlled media provides crucial clues for deciphering the—often sinister—goals that the government of Russia was and is planning to pursue abroad, from election interference to military invasions. The goal of the sum of these activities is the establishment of a new world order—with Russia at its helm. Before the large invasion of 24 February 2022, Russian state media portrayed the West as incapable of opposing Russian aggression. Putin’s propagandists cheered for war against Ukraine, predicting it would be quick and victorious. Misreading the ability of the West to unite and miscalculating Russia’s capabilities in confronting determined Ukrainians, Russia ended up in a quagmire of its own creation. In 2024, Putin’s decorated propagandists face the possibility of future scrutiny and potential prosecutions for their proactive incitement of genocide. They unravel, along with the Kremlin, having to tell multiple conflicting stories and condemn the same players they used to lionize. Backed into the corner, they resort to nuclear threats and demand even more blood from Ukraine, whose only crime is its desire for democracy and freedom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Julia

Umland, Andreas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Snyder, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Über Autor(innen)

Umland, Andreas
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.

Davis, Julia
Julia Davis, MSc, studied Aviation and Spacecraft Engineering at the National Technical University of Ukraine also known as the Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute of Kyiv. Today, Julia lives in the United States and is a prominent Russian media analyst, whose investigations have repeatedly prompted retractions and corrections by RT (formerly “Russia Today”) and other media outlets. Julia has been sanctioned by the Russian Federation for her influential analysis of Russia’s propaganda, war crimes, and genocidal rhetoric. She is also a film producer, director and writer, as well as a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Screen Actors Guild, and Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. In 1994, Julia was the first to produce a musical film score featuring the National Ukrainian Orchestra for Paramount Pictures.

Snyder, Timothy
Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and the author of a number of books, including Bloodlands, The Road to Unfreedom, and the forthcoming On Freedom.