...Ivan Posylnyi This article examines how the Soviet grand narrative of the Great Patriotic War (1941–45) was used in the school educational institution in one of the two Donbas “people’s republics” between 2014 and 2021. Using as a case study a Luhansk school with one of the most pro-Russian and pro...

... 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...

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..., historical myths and re-Stalinization of Putin’s political system. The final section compares Russia’s invasions of Georgia and Ukraine in 2008 and 2014 respectively and the growing xenophobia in Russian foreign policy. Vladimir Putin Russian nationalism Russkii Mir Eurasianism Crimea Donbas ©...