CrimethInc. Ex-Workers
The Maidan Diary of Dmitry Petrov
An Eyewitness Account of the Ukrainian Revolution of 2014
https://crimethinc.com/PetrovUkraine
An unflinching and critical account from within the demonstrations that toppled the Ukrainian government in 2014.
Dmitry Petrov cut his teeth in various anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian, and ecological struggles. He traveled to Kyiv to support Ukrainians as they resisted a government that was aligned with the same autocracy that anarchists were fighting in Russia.
What Dmitry saw in Kyiv was by turns exhilarating and disheartening. In his reports, he documents how militarism, nationalism, and hierarchical organization channeled the movement away from the kinds of profound social change that he sought. At the same time, even in the face of fascist threats, he did his best to make a space for anarchist proposals in the Maidan protests.
We have translated Dmitry’s reports from February 2014 because they offer insight into historic events, but also because the questions that Dmitry faced there continue to confront us today.
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