The Kremlin’s strategy to redistribute wealth through the war effort may boost its legitimacy.

Volodymyr Ishchenko is a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on protests and ... social movements, revolutions, radical right and left politics, nationalism and civil society. He is working on a collective book manuscript, The Maidan Uprising: Mobilization, Radicalization, and Revolution in Ukraine, 2013-2014.
The Kremlin’s strategy to redistribute wealth through the war effort may boost its legitimacy.
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