Who Fights for Governments?

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Armed conflict
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Civilians
Donbas War
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Military invasion
Militias
Paramilitary mobilization
Pro-government
Russia
Ukraine
Ukraine volunteer battalion
Volunteers

Product details

  • ISBN 9781350498419
  • Weight: 560g
  • Dimensions: 164 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Exploring why, when and under which circumstances individuals decide to take up arms mobilizing for pro-government militias, Huseyn Aliyev draws on insights from long-standing ethnographic fieldwork among former and active members of Ukraine’s pro-government volunteer battalions, and an original database of militias’ obituaries, to offer this complex and in-depth explanation of the phenomenon of pro-government mobilization.
Revealing the patterns and dynamics of individual mobilization into pro-government militias, this study is critical to understanding how the Ukrainian nation succeeded in repelling Russian aggression both in 2014-15 and in 2022, but also essential to explaining how and why hundreds of pro-government militias emerge in the context of armed conflicts in different parts of the world.

Huseyn Aliyev is a Lecturer of Central & East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

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