This is the first comparative article to investigate commonalities in Ukrainian and Irish history, identity, and politics. The article analyzes the broader Ukrainian and Irish experience with Russia/Soviet Union in the first and Britain in the second instance, as well as the regional similarities in conflicts in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine and the six of the nine counties of Ulster that are Northern Ireland. The similarity in the Ukrainian and Irish experiences of treatment under Russian/Soviet and British rule is starker when we take into account the large differences in the sizes of their territories, populations, and economies. The five factors that are used for this comparative study include post-colonialism and the “Other,” religion, history and memory politics, language and identities, and attitudes toward Europe.
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September 01 2020
Empire Loyalism and Nationalism in Ukraine and Ireland: Comparing the Sources of Conflict in the Donbas and Ulster Available to Purchase
Taras Kuzio
Taras Kuzio
National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, USA
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Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2020) 53 (3): 88–106.
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Taras Kuzio; Empire Loyalism and Nationalism in Ukraine and Ireland: Comparing the Sources of Conflict in the Donbas and Ulster. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 September 2020; 53 (3): 88–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2020.53.3.88
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