@I_Katchanovski 1. The story told in detailed historical research of events on the ground questions the relative salience of domestic factors in the spark of the alleged civil war - whatever terminological preference one may have. See for instance, the scrupulous work in the following research:
@I_Katchanovski 2. Nikolay Mitrokhin, “Bandenkrieg und Staatsbildung: Zur Zukunft des Donbass,” Osteuropa 65, nos. 1-2 (2015): 5–22; idem, “Diktaturtransfer im Donbass: Gewalt und ‘Staatsbildung’ in Russlands ‘Volksrepubliken’,” Osteuropa 67, nos. 3-4 (2017): 41–55...
@I_Katchanovski 3. Nikolay Mitrokhin, “Im Namen des Staates: Russische Nationalisten im Ukraine-Einsatz,” Osteuropa 69, nos. 3-4 (2019): 103–121; Sanshiro Hosaka, “Welcome to Surkov’s Theater: Russian Political Technology in the Donbas War,” Nationalities Papers 47, no. 5 (2019), 750-773...
@I_Katchanovski 4. Jakob Hauter (ed.), Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War? Dimensions and Interpretations of the Donbas Conflict in 2014–2020 (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2021); and most importantly on the start of the war: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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