| Description |
1 online resource (333 pages) |
| Series |
Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; v. 98 |
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Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
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| Contents |
List of Abbreviations; List of Images; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Remapping the Post-Soviet Space; 1 ""Eurasia"" and Its Uses in the Ukrainian GeopoliticalImagination; 2 Slavic Sisters into European Neighbours:Ukrainian-Belarusian relations after 1991; II Bordering Nations, Transcending Boundaries; 3 Under Construction: the Ukrainian-Russian Borderfrom the Soviet Collapse to EU Enlargement; 4 Boundary in Mind: Discourses and Narrativesof the Ukrainian-Russian Border; 5 ""Slobozhanshchyna"": Re-inventing a Regionin the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands |
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III Living (with the) Border6 Making Sense of a New Border: Social Transformationsand Shifting Identities in Five Near-Border Villages; 7 Becoming Ukrainians in a ""Russian"" Village:Local Identity, Language and National Belonging |
| Summary |
Since 1991, post-Soviet political elites in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus have been engaged in nation- as well as state-building. They have tried to strengthen territorial sovereignty and national security, re-shape collective identities and re-narrate national histories. Former Soviet republics have become new neighbours, partners, and competitors searching for geopolitical identity in the new ""Eastern Europe"", i.e. the countries left outside the enlarged EU. Old paradigms such as ""Eurasia"" or ""East Slavic civilisation"" have been re-invented and politically instrumentalized in the i |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Geopolitics -- Ukraine
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Geopolitics
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Ukraine
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Umland, Andreas
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| ISBN |
9783838260426 |
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3838260422 |
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