Скачать книгу

       3.1.2 Influence of the EU-NATO Security Community Expansion on Russian-Ukrainian Relations

       Conclusions to Chapter 3

       4 From Soviet Ethno-Political Engineering to Ethno-Geopolitics: The Construction of a “Cossack” Nation in Ukraine, and the “Russian Civilization”

       4.1. The Heritage of Soviet Ethnography and the Revival of Ethno-Geopolitics in Russia

       4.2. Ethno-Geopolitics of Putin’s Eurasianism

       4.2.1 What is Putin’s Eurasianism?

       4.2.2 Putin’s Nationalism: Known Knowns

       4.2.3 Putin’s Nationalism: Known Unknowns

       4.2.4 Revival of Political Eurasianism Ideology in Russia

       4.2.5 New Eurasianism: Implications and Contradictions

       4.2.6 Unknown Unknowns of Putin’s Eurasianism

       4.3. The Cossack Revival in Russia

       4.4. The Heritage of Soviet Ethnography and Ethno-Geopolitical Discourse in Ukraine

       4.5. The Cossack Revival in Ukraine

       Conclusions to Chapter 4

       5 The Insecurity of National Identity in Ukraine and Russia: Towards a Normative Theory of Nationalism

       5.1. Nationalism as a Modern Belief System

       5.2. Nationalism, Federalism and Civil Society

       Summary und Conclusions of the Book

       Appendix 1: The Case Study of the Black Sea Cossack Revival

       1.1. Fieldwork Methods

       1.2. Phases of Fieldwork and of Fieldwork Methods Application

       1.3. Evolution of Personal Identities—Shift Towards Cossack Identification

       1.4. Black Sea Cossacks—Self-Image and Perception of Others

       Summary

       Appendix 2: Reflections of the Societal Security Concerns in the Conflict Situation Between the Two Cossack Organizations in the Black Sea Region.

       2.1. Description of the Two Cossack Movements

       2.2. The Origin of Conflicting Interests

       2.3. Self-Perception of Parties

       2.4. An Attempt to Solve the Problem

       2.5. The Social Context

       Summary

       Appendix 3: Photo-Pictures

       Bibliography

      ASSR Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

      BBC British Broadcasting Corporation

      CIS Commonwealth of Independent States

      CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union

      ESO Ethno-Social Organism

      EU European Union

      EAEU Eurasian Economic Union

      FSU Former Soviet Union

      GMT Greenwich Mean Time

      IMF International Monetary Fund

      IR International Relations

      ITAR TASS—Russian Information Agency

      KGB Soviet Security Service

      KLA Kosovo Liberation Army

      MOD Ministry of Defense

      MP Member of Parliament

      MVD Ministry of Interior in the USSR or the Russian Federation

      NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

      NCA National Cultural Autonomy

      NEO New European Order

      NIS Newly Independent States

      NTV Russian National Television

      NUAS National Ukrainian Academy of Science

      OSCE Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe

      RSK Republic of Serbian Krajina

      RSFSR Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

      SBU Ukrainian Security Service

      SWB Short Wave Broadcast reports by the BBC Monitoring

      UAF Ukrainian Armed Forces

      UK Ukrainian Cossack Organization

      UK United Kingdom

      UNIAR Ukrainian Independent News Agency Respublika

      UPA Ukrainian Resurgence Army

      USA United States of America

      USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

      VDV Soviet and then Russian or Ukrainian paratroopers’ military formations

      WW2 Second World War

      Strangers to Themselves

      By Vitali Vitaliev

      Olexander Hryb has written an extremely topical book, the main subject of which is national identity.

      Let’s face it: nationalism—in all its different guises and manifestations—remains one of the main divisive factors on the global, read federal, scale and, at the same time, one of the main uniting ideologies on the local, read provincial, level. There’s no need to give examples—suffice it is to open a daily newspaper, turn on radio or TV, or do a quick browse of the Internet—and you will be showered with them.

      But

Скачать книгу