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Series:   Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History

Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

Marta Dyczok
Marta Dyczok
Affiliation:
Western University

Summary

This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine's twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It presents Ukraine as an actor, not a pawn, in international history. And it focuses on people. In the past, historians wrote about Ukraine from a colonial perspective that portrayed it as a region, not its own entity. This shaped the way people thought about Ukraine and created mental maps where it was just part of something else. Put in contemporary terms, Ukraine was subjected to a historical disinformation war. This Element joins voices that are decolonizing that way of thinking by drawing a different mental map, one where Ukraine exists as itself. It explains how the people living on its lands have their own distinct history, how they shaped it, were shaped by it, and had an impact on both European and global history.
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Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
Online ISBN: 9781009365536
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 21 November 2024

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