1994 Reports

Will Ukraine Survive 1994?

Motyl, Alexander J.

Will Ukraine survive 1994? Increasingly, the answer one encounters is "no." Political deadlock, economic crisis, and ethnic rumblings in the Donbas and Crimea have transformed the post-independence euphoria of late 1991 into the gloom of late 1993. Worst-case scenarios—collapse, secession, decay—have replaced best-case scenarios—integration into Europe, economic prosperity, political dynamism.