title: A spirit of Maidan?
abstract: At its outset, the Euromaidan movement of 2013–2014 promised to become yet another example of a mass-based, predominantly nonviolent movement against an authoritarian leader bent on clinging to power. However, as the movement played out over the course of three months the script with which the world has become familiarized over the past few decades was to be betrayed. As the regime dug in, committed to its own survival, it set in motion a vicious cycle that came to include violence perpetrated n