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| Автор | Rodgers, Peter W
| | Название | Nation, Region and History in Post-Communist Transitions: Identity Politics in Ukraine, 1991-2006 |
| Дата | 2008 |
| Язык | Английский |
| Страниц | 208 |
| ISBN | 978-3-89821-903-7 |
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АннотацияSince independence in 1991, issues of nation and identity have become highly debated topics in Ukraine. This monograph explores not only how national identity is being (re)constructed by the Ukrainian state, but also the processes by which it is negotiated through society. The central argument of this work is that too much attention, concerning identity in Ukraine, has focused on markers of ethnicity and language. Instead, the author advocates a regional approach, engaging with the issue of how Ukraine’s regional differences affect nation-building processes. Following the tumultuous events of the ‘Orange Revolution’, the view of Ukraine as a country inherently ‘divided’ between ‘East’ and ‘West’ has (re)emerged to become a popular explanation for political events. The study outlines the necessity for academics, policymakers and indeed politicians to veer away from this simplistic ‘West versus East’ divide. The book advocates an analysis of Ukraine’s unique brand of regionalism not in terms of divisions, but in terms of regional differences and diversity. The author deconstructs the concept of ‘Eastern Ukraine’ by focusing on three Ukrainian localities, all adjacent to the Ukrainian-Russian border. The study examines how individuals provide ‘their’ own understanding of the place of their region within the wider processes of nation building across Ukraine. In doing so, the book develops a ‘regional’ approach to the study of identity politics in Ukraine. |
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Оглавление книгиСодержание
List of Tables, Maps and Pictures 11
List of Abbreviations 13
List of Appendices 15
Acknowledgements 17
Foreword by Vera Tolz 19
Introduction 23
The research gap 23
Research questions 25
Book structure 26
Methodological issues 28
1 Mapping Identities in Ukraine 33
1.1 Ukrainian/Russian nexus 34
1.2 Language: a marker of identity? 40
1.3 A regional approach? 43
1.4 Conclusions 45
2 How Many Ukraines? Regionalism and the Politics of
Identity 49
2.1 Difficulties in defining Ukrainian regionalism: beyond the
‘east-west’ divide? 50
2.2 The need to go deeper: the search for a regional
framework? 53
2.3 From the macro to the micro: meaning and perception
at the local level 64
2.4 Ukraine’s eastern borderlands 668 PETER W. RODGERS
2.4.1 Luhans’k 68
2.4.2 Kharkiv 73
2.4.3 Sumy 77
2.5 Conclusions 80
3 Contesting History: State Narratives of the Nation 87
3.1 Teaching the Ukrainian past 88
3.2 Narrating the ‘History of Ukraine’ 90
3.2.1 Grade 7: Kiev Rus’ 91
3.2.2 Grade 8: The Cossack period 93
3.2.3 Grade 9: Ukraine in the nineteenth century 98
3.2.4 Grade 10: Ukraine in the twentieth century:
1915-1939 100
3.2.5 Grade 11: Ukraine and World War Two 104
3.3 Conclusions 106
4 ‘Where are we from?’ Negotiating ‘History’ in the Regions 109
4.1 Linking the macro to the micro: the role of teachers
in the Ukrainian classroom 109
4.2 History as a Ukrainian ‘political football’ 113
4.2.1 Kiev Rus’ 115
4.2.2 The Cossack period 116
4.2.3 Holodomor: The Great Famine of 1932/3 117
4.2.4 World War Two/Great Patriotic War? 119
4.3 Russia as the ‘other’ 122
4.4 Schoolchildren’s reflections on the ‘History of Ukraine’ 125
4.4.1 Kiev Rus’ 125
4.4.2 The Cossack period 126
4.4.3 Holodomor: The Great Famine of 1932/3 128
4.4.4 World War Two/Great Patriotic War? 129
4.5 Conclusions 133IDENTITY POLITICS IN UKRAINE 9
5 ‘Who are we?’ and ‘Who we are not?’
Understanding the Importance of the ‘Region’ 137
5.1 Regional narratives – complementing or
contradicting the state narrative? 137
5.1.1 Luhans’k 137
5.1.2 Kharkiv 142
5.1.3 Sumy 147
5.2 The importance of the ‘region’: reflections from the
Classroom 149
5.3 Reflections on ‘Russia’ as Ukraine’s ‘other’ 154
5.3.1 The Russian-Ukrainian border 154
5.3.2 Russian-Ukrainian relations 156
5.4 Conclusions 159
6 Conclusions: Key Empirical Findings 161
Bibliography
English Language Sources 169
Russian and Ukrainian Language Sources 185
Appendices 189
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