Chronicles of the Russo-Ukrainian War. A sociologist’s view

Abstract

In the early morning of February 24, 2022, Russia launched a wide-scale aggression on Ukraine. Nearly instantly, cooperation developed between the sociologist from Ukraine and Poland—from the National University of Lviv and the University of Wrocław—the aim of which was to understand the new social reality that has been shaping since that moment in these two countries and in the world. A significant part of this cooperation was the publication of bulletins prepared by the representatives of the Department of Sociology at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Their colleagues from the University of Wrocław were translating the bulletins into Polish and English and were publishing them on the website of their university. The sociologists from Lviv aimed to inform the public in Poland and, through Poland, in other countries about the course of the Russo-Ukrainian war during its ‘hot’ time as well as about the state of the public opinion in Ukraine and about the theoretical reflections emerging from the current empirical studies. One of the first generalisations we arrived at was the thesis: “sociology is also a weapon.”