Escape from empire: Ukraine’s post-Soviet national awakening UkraineAlert by Taras Kuzio
A supporter of the Ukrainian national football team attends a match during the Euro 2020 European Championship. (REUTERS/Robert Perry)
The strengthening of Ukrainian national identity over the past three decades of independence is an important and under-explored historical phenomenon that has had repercussions far beyond Ukraine’s borders. It has transformed the political climate across much of the former Soviet world and helped fuel today’s Cold War-style climate of confrontation between Russia and the West.
From the very beginning, Ukraine’s post-Soviet nation-building journey has been defined by competition between rival narratives that have sought to place the country within the so-called Russian World or among the European community of nations. Ukrainian supporters of a Russia-friendly Eastern Slavic identity have always been able to count on p
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