The Soviet Ukraine in Historical Perspective

Rudnytsky, Ivan L.

doi:10.1080/00085006.1972.11091274

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“…Ukrainian nationalism refers to Ukrainians' identification with and esteem for Ukrainian independence and their own national identity. Ukrainian nationalism is significant in a historical context where Ukraine has always faced influence and control from outside forces [5]. However, during the Soviet era, the regime attempted to consolidate a unified system by suppressing Ukrainian nationalism.…”

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The National Consciousness of Ukraine and Its Evolution During the Soviet Era

Gao

2024

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During the Soviet period, Ukrainian national consciousness underwent a complex evolution. At first, Ukrainians had a stronger sense of identity with their language, culture, and history, and Ukrainian culture received some level of support. However, during the Stalinist period, Ukraine suffered from cultural repression and large-scale man-made famines, which dealt a heavy blow to Ukrainians’ sense of nationhood. This paper discusses Ukrainian national consciousness and its evolution in Soviet-era Ukraine from historical, political, and social perspectives. Over time, Ukrainians began to pay more attention to and study Ukrainian history and culture, ultimately ushering in Ukrainian independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. During this period of time, Ukrainian national consciousness was further enhanced and consolidated, and Ukrainians became prouder of guarding and passing on their national identity to younger generations. By combing and analyzing the history of Ukrainian national consciousness, the study contributes to a deeper understanding of the historical roots of Ukrainian national consciousness in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.

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The National Consciousness of Ukraine and Its Evolution During the Soviet Era

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2024

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“…Similarly, in his earlier work, Yekelchyk emphasized that national elites and ideologues routinely “adjusted the Kremlin’s guidelines to local realities,” creating a space for negotiations and deviations from the official party line (2004, 11; Portnov and Portnova 2017). In Ukraine, this behavioral mode was provoked by political, social, and ecological cataclysms, such as famines, the Great Terror, World War II and Chornobyl, calamities that contributed greatly to Ukrainian elites’ desires to consider and articulate their ethnic difference (Rudnytsky 1972; Wanner 1998; Weiner 2002; Yekelchyk 2004, 5, 11; Liber 2016; Viola 2017).…”

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Political Affinities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970s

Bertelsen

2019

Nationalities Papers

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This article examines the goals and practices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine in the 1970s, a Soviet institution that functioned as an ideological organ fighting against Ukrainian nationalists domestically and abroad. The central figure of this article is Heorhii Shevel who governed the Ministry from 1970 to 1980 and whose tactics, strategies, and practices reveal the existence of a distinct phenomenon in the Soviet Union—the nationally conscious political elite with double loyalties who, by action or inaction, expanded the space of nationalism in Ukraine. This research illuminates a paradox of pervasive Soviet power, which produced an institution that supported and reinforced Soviet “anti-nationalist” ideology, simultaneously creating an environment where heterodox views or sentiments were stimulated and nurtured.

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“…Even with all of the real limits on its sovereignty, he argued, the republic had a seat at the United Nations, the formal right to secession, and, after its expansion in World War II, borders that included all Ukrainian ethnic territories. In an age of decolonization, he provocatively asserted, the Soviet Union was an “anachronism” and relations between Soviet Ukraine and the Union might change (Rudnytsky 1987).…”

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Bringing the State Back In: Studying Ukrainian Statehood in the 20th Century

Dobczansky

Bellezza

2019

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This article introduces a special issue on Ukrainian statehood. Based on the conference “A Century of Ukrainian Statehoods: 1917 and Beyond” at the University of Toronto, the special issue examines the relationship between the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1920 and the Soviet Ukrainian state over the long term. The authors survey the history of the Ukrainian SSR and propose two points of emphasis: the need to study the promises of “national” and “social” liberation in tandem and the persistent presence of an “internal other” in Soviet Ukrainian history.

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The Soviet Ukraine in Historical Perspective

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The National Consciousness of Ukraine and Its Evolution During the Soviet Era

The National Consciousness of Ukraine and Its Evolution During the Soviet Era

Political Affinities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970s

Bringing the State Back In: Studying Ukrainian Statehood in the 20th Century

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