Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context

ISBN-13: 9781032085951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 128 str.

Ulrich Schmid

Opis

This book challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions which underpin the current political situation.

Spis treści

1. Where Is Ukraine Situated?

2. How Many Ukraines Are There? Seeing the East-West Opposition in Context

3. The Russian Perspective: ‘Little Russia’ in the ‘Russian World’

4. The Cultivation of the Habsburg Myth in Galicia and Bukovina

5. Poland as Friend and Foe: From the Volhynia Massacre to the Polish Initiatives for Ukraine in the EU

6. National Independence and Regional Differences

7. History Wars over the Tragedies of the Soviet Era

8. The Ukraine Crisis: Civil War or Russian Hybrid War?

9. The Ukrainian Economy

10. The European Union as Unwilling Protector of Ukraine

11. The Complicated Relationship with the USA and NATO

12. Quo vadis, Ukraine?

13. List of Historical City Names

14. Bibliography

O autorze

Ulrich Schmid is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests include nationalism, popular culture and media in Eastern Europe. He studied German and Slavic literature at the Universities of Zürich, Heidelberg, and Leningrad. He has held academic positions in Basel, Bern, Bochum, and was a visiting researcher at Harvard University, in Warsaw, and in Oslo. His publications include Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity (ed. 2019); De Profundis: On the Failure of the Russian Revolution (ed. 2017); Technologies of the Soul: The Production of Truth in Contemporary Russian Culture (2015); Sword, Eagle and Cross: The Aesthetics of the Nationalist Discourse in Interwar Poland (ed. 2013) and Tolstoi as a Theological Thinker and Critic of the Church (ed. 2013).