Diverging Paths of Ukraine and Russia with Mario Popova

Host Sanjay Ruparelia sat down with Maria Popova, an associate professor of political science at McGill University, where she holds the Jean Monnet Chair. Dr. Popova is a widely noted scholar of corruption, autocracy and populism in post-communist Europe, and recently released her book Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States which she co-authored with Oxana Shevel. As Ukraine enters its third year of the war with Russia, Maria joins us to discuss Russia and Ukraine's divergent paths after the fall of the Soviet Union, the two countries’ conflicting memories of the Holodomor, and Russia’s motivations in Ukraine that extend beyond NATO’s encroachment. 

Show Notes:

Host: Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair and Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University

Guest: Maria Popova, Jean Monnet Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University

Further Reading:

Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States by Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel

Ukraine in Histories and Stories: Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals by Volodomyr Yermolenko (editor)

Red Famine by Anne Applebaum

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin