Re-making a Frontier Community or Defending Ethnic Boundaries? The Caucasus in Cossack Identity

Popov, Anton

doi:10.1080/09668136.2012.718422

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Re-enacting “Cossack roots:” embodiment of memory, history, and tradition among young people in southern Russia

Popov

2017

Nationalities Papers

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Then he studied social anthropology in the Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology (Moscow, Russia), cultural studies and Russian and East European studies in the University of Birmingham (UK). He received his PhD from Birmingham University based on the study of the cultural production of identity among Greeks in southern Russia and the North Caucasus. Currently Dr Popov studies transmission of historical memories about the traumatic periods of the past to the younger generation of Europeans and the impact of collective memory on the youth activism (including young people's involvement in radical right groups).

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Re-enacting “Cossack roots:” embodiment of memory, history, and tradition among young people in southern Russia

Popov

2017

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Oppressed Oppressors: The Kuban Cossacks Revival in Post-Soviet Russia

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Forging Frontline Russians

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2024

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

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This article considers efforts by the de facto authorities of non-governmental-controlled areas (NGCAs) of eastern Ukraine to shape regional identity from 2014 through 2021. It focuses on the paradoxes of top-down identity construction in an environment of mixed popular sentiments, fluid borders, and an uncertain political future. It argues that nascent identity construction projects in the NGCAs were often inconsistent and unclear, emphasizing different layers of “candidate Fatherlands,” be it the individual self-declared republics, the Donbas, Novorossiia, the Russian Federation, or a broader Russian civilization. While internally inconsistent and contradictive, however, the various initiatives often took antemurale political myths as a point of departure. These myths spin around the idea that regional inhabitants constitute a particular brand of “frontline Russians”—hardened warriors protecting a western outpost of the Russian civilization. Even as “candidate Fatherlands” came and went, this ideational core manifested not only in policy and aloof declarations, but also in a persistent growth of so-called military-patriotic education in the region. Militarized ideas of political identity became mainstream within the occupied areas—reflecting both influences from Russia and the ongoing war.

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Re-making a Frontier Community or Defending Ethnic Boundaries? The Caucasus in Cossack Identity

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Re-enacting “Cossack roots:” embodiment of memory, history, and tradition among young people in southern Russia

Re-enacting “Cossack roots:” embodiment of memory, history, and tradition among young people in southern Russia

Oppressed Oppressors: The Kuban Cossacks Revival in Post-Soviet Russia

Forging Frontline Russians

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