Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War

Taras Kuzio

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English

Routledge
27 January 2022

Military history; Social & political philosophy; Politics & government; Nationalism; Warfare & defence

Series: Europa Country Perspectives

This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Europe’s de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book provides a historical and contemporary understanding behind President Vladimir Putin Russia’s obsession with Ukraine and why Western opprobrium and sanctions have not deterred Russian military aggression.

The volume provides a wealth of detail about the inability of Russia, from the time of the Tsarist Empire, throughout the era of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and since the dissolution of the latter in 1991, to accept Ukraine as an independent country and Ukrainians as a people distinct and separate from Russians. The book highlights the sources of this lack of acceptance in aspects of Russian national identity. In the Soviet period, Russians principally identified themselves not with the Russian Soviet Federative Republic, but rather with the USSR as a whole. Attempts in the 1990s to forge a post-imperial Russian civic identity grounded in the newly independent Russian Federation were unpopular, and notions of a far larger Russian ‘imagined community’ came to the fore. A post-Soviet integration of Tsarist Russian great power nationalism and White Russian émigré chauvinism had already transformed and hardened Russian denial of the existence of Ukraine and Ukrainians as a people, even prior to the 2014 crises in Crimea and the Donbas. Bringing an end to both the Russian occupation of Crimea and to the broader Russian–Ukrainian conflict can be expected to meet obstacles not only from the Russian de facto President-for-life, Vladimir Putin, but also from how Russia perceives its national identity.

By: Taras Kuzio
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 512g
ISBN: 9781032043173
ISBN 10: 1032043172
Series: Europa Country Perspectives
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 27 January 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Taras Kuzio is an Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society think tank in London, UK and Professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. He is the author, co-author and editorand co-editor of 21 books, including Ukraine’s Outpost: Dnipropetrovsk and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2021, co-editor), Crisis in Russian Studies? Nationalism (Imperialism), Racism and War (2020), The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics: Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order (2018, co-author), Putin’s War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime (2017). He is the author of five think tank monographs, including The Crimea: Europe’s Next Flashpoint? (2010) and is also a member of the editorial boards of Demokratizatsiya, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Central and European Migration Review, and The Ukrainian Quarterly. He has authored 38 book chapters and over 130 scholarly articles on Ukrainian and Eurasian politics, democratic transitions, colour revolutions, nationalism, and European studies.