... show how a foreign country’s history can be turned into a usable past not via shared experience or direct analogy but as an initially neutral material for addressing pivotal issues of one’s own country and ambivalent sides of its national identity. email: [email protected] © 2025...

... by the fall of communism. Various interpretations of Russia’s communist past were given ( Urban 1994 ; Slater 1998 ) as contrasting visions of Russian national identity emerged ( Tolz 1998 ) in the 1990s, a period in which the country experienced an acute identity crisis verging on Durkheimian anomie...

... and heroic narratives, official and unofficial memory, and local and national memory politics. email: [email protected] © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 memory politics Russia Cossacks national identity violence in the 20th century In this article, we focus...

... with bottom up state-building. The second is divergent Russian and Ukrainian national identities. The third is the resultant different transitions with Russia reverting to great power imperial nationalism and Ukraine quadruple and post-colonial transitions. Russian-Ukrainian relations Vladimir Putin...

... aspiration towards EU integration, hopes of gaining political security, economic stability, and cultural integration are accompanied by doubts and fears of asymmetric power relations, diminishing national sovereignty, and declining national identity. Despite these doubts, EU integration is considered...

... The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Comparative citizenship Divided nations Policies and trends Socialist nationality Treaty system National identity Keywords: Comparative...

... of California Ukraine National identity Ethnic and regional divide Democracy Civic society Economy Corruption Power Conflict a common identity; (2) a country in an unfinished transition and degradation; (3) a divided society; and (4) Ukraine as a colony or wild capitalism . The analysis...

... that has made civil society stronger in western Ukraine where Austro-Hungarian rule permitted the emergence of a Ukrainian national identity that was stymied in eastern Ukraine by the Tsarist empire. Ukraine Orange Revolution Nationalism National identity Yushchenko Yanukovych Galicia Donetsk...

... this paper shows how the governments of the Russian Federation and Ukraine uses state controlled history education to define their national identity and to present themselves in relations to each other. For example, history education in Ukraine portrays Russia as oppressive and aggressive enemy...

... of citizenship and also in the emphasis on the language requirements for citizenship. The explanations could be traced back to the previous century and to the cultural and political project of state and nation-building. But the importance assigned to the national identity and national sovereignty issues...

..., and other protest activities. Finally, state weakness has negatively influenced the feeling of collective membership and reinforced sub-national identities. Declining loyalty is particularly evident among the citizens who have left the country in the prospect of better employment abroad...

... of the University of California Education Vospitaniye Social upbringing Kyrgyzstan Secondary schools National identity The erosion of vospitaniye (social upbringing) in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Voices from the schools* Alan J. DeYoung* Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, College...

... mass public opinion survey developed by the author, the article engages in bi-variate and multivariate statistical analysis of the relationship between perceived ethnic and ethno-regional diversity in Ukraine and various measures of national identity and national unity. The results of this analysis...

..., which is a result of unresolved questions of national identity. For describing Russia’s identity crisis, the authors employ Erving Goffman’s concept of stigma defined as a crisis of a larger social acceptance by Russia’s ‘‘significant other’’ (West). The essay suggests that, until this crisis...

...Z. Šabič; M. Brglez The article discusses, through conceptual elaboration and empirical investigation, the interplay between the perception of smallness and the concept of national identity in the case of Slovenia’s integration into the European Union. Unlike the prevailing literature on Slovenia...