Olga Baysha is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Moscow, Russia. She earned her MS in Journalism from Colorado State University and PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, she worked as a news reporter and editor in Kharkiv and Kyiv, Ukraine. She is the author of The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project (2014), Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine (2018), and Democracy, Populism, and Neoliberalism in Ukraine: On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real (2022).

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Transnational Populism and Global Polarization

Part I: Populist Discourse of Civilization

1. From the Euromaidan to the Russia-Ukraine War: 2013-2022

2. Analyzing Populist Discourses: Contingency, Sedimentation, and Antagonism

3. Zelensky's Transnational Populism: "Civilized Us" Versus "Barbaric Them"

Part II: Alternative Articulations of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

4. Ukraine Under External Control

5. Authoritarian Populism in the Name of Democracy

6. The Deadlock of the Peace Treaty

Conclusion. A Road to Peace: Giving Voice to the Silenced