The College of Europe in Natolin continues its "Meet the Authors" series with the recently published fourth volume of Natolin's 3R Three Ukrainian Revolutions Project titled The End of the Soviet World? Essays on Post-Communist Political and Social Change, edited by Prof. Georges MINK and Dr Iwona REICHARDT (Hanover: Ibidem Verlag, 2025).
The book and the 3R project was presented and discussed by Professor Georges MINK and Professor Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI.
The purposes of the event were:
- to acquaint students with processes of research and reflection underlying the events and publications of the 3R Three Ukrainian Revolutions project and the opportunities for students to conduct their own research using its materials;
- to discuss the question of whether, and if so, how and why the post-Soviet world is ending.
The 3R Project (Three Ukrainian Revolutions) has been a flagship initiative for the College of Europe in Natolin since 2016. Through research, publications, and conferences, the project has analysed the situation in Ukraine and the three most significant protests that have taken place in Ukraine since 1990: the Revolution on Granite (1990), the Orange Revolution (2004-2005), and the Euromaidan or Revolution of Dignity (2013-2014).
About the book:
This is the fourth volume prepared by the leaders of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions (3R) project realized at the College of Europe in Natolin since 2016. The present collection of essays analyses the changes that have taken place in the post-Soviet space since 1991 and which have determined both the process of democratization and the return to authoritarianism in the new republics.
Since 2022, researchers gathered around the 3R project have been asked: Had there been no revolutions and mass pro-democratic protest in Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, would there also be no war today? Answers to this and similar questions are provided by: Marek CICHOCKI, Kinga Anna GAJDA, Garry KASPAROV, Magdalena LACHOWICZ, Wojciech MICHNIK, Georges MINK, Justyna OLĘDZKA, Iwona REICHARDT, Anton SAIFULLAYEU, Kacper WAŃCZYK, Andrew WILSON, and Kataryna WOLCZUK, with an afterword by Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI.