Thank you very much, @BrankoMilan, for the extended review of my book and for highlighting my class analysis of the post-Soviet region! Your analysis of political capitalism was obviously a big inspiration! Two small notes. First, I do not see the far-right nationalists as a “class.” I see them rather as the radical wing of the “Western” camp in Ukrainian politics. These two articles, as well as my chapter with Don Kalb in the Backlash book (Pluto, open access), clarify this better: xitter.cf/Volod_Ishchenko/status… plutobooks.com/wp-content/up… Systematic empirical studies of the Ukrainian far right from a class perspective are basically nonexistent. I would say that they draw their rank and file from poor youth but, politically, they are sometimes aligned with the comprador bourgeoisie and intellectuals, and sometimes with opportunistic “pro-Western” oligarchs, while also overlapping heavily with criminal business and the security services. Strengthened after the war, they may play a sovereign, autonomous role in Ukrainian politics. Second, Soviet Ukrainians have not been “totally eliminated.” We lost anything resembling political representation through betrayal, repression, and exile, and have not yet found or built a new one. We exist, but have been marginalized in the public sphere.