Euromaidan, a rebirth of the Ukrainian nation, and the German debate on Ukraine’s national identity VI. Mainstream Ukrainian nationalism: A liberationist and pro-European patriotism.
By the 19th century, a Ukrainian national consciousness had developed under Central European influence in what is today’s western Ukraine – which was annexed by the Soviet Union as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop…
Euromaidan, rebirth of the Ukrainian nation, and the German debate on Ukraine’s national identity V. Ukraine: An ‘artificial nation’?
In Russia the very existence of a Ukrainian nation is often questioned and even negated. This is not only the case in Russia. In Germany, too, attempts to ‘understand’ Putin’s conduct are often…
Euromaidan, a rebirth of the Ukrainian nation, and the German debate on Ukraine’s national identity IV. Nation, national identity and nationalism: Constructivism versus essentialism.
In research on nationalism, ‘nation’ is defined either in essentialistic (primordial) or in constructivistic (voluntaristic) terms. The constructivist concept of nation in the meaning of Benedict Anderson’s ‘imagined community’ has largely established itself against essentialistic concepts (essence, language, territory etc.),…
Euromaidan, a rebirth of the Ukrainian nation, and the German debate on Ukraine’s national identity III. From ‘Euromaidan’ to ‘Maidan’.
The Maidan movement began spontaneously on November 21, 2013, and was soon being branded as ‘Euromaidan’ due to the pro-EU integration dynamic of the initial protests. Kyiv’s academic youth led the early…
Euromaidan, a rebirth of the Ukrainian nation, and the German debate on Ukraine’s national identity II. Putin as a midwife of the Ukrainian nation.
The “hybrid war” Russia is waging against Ukraine, and her aggressive propaganda against this country are direct consequences of the victory of the Maidan movement in Kyiv. By reversing the course of…
Euromaidan, a rebirth of the Ukrainian nation, and the German debate on Ukraine’s national identity I. Intro.
The emerging nation-states of the 18th and 19th centuries were based on existing national identities. In contrast, Ukraine had obtained her statehood (Ukr.: derzhavnist’) before her national identity was firmly grounded. The newly…