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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822505803321

Autore

Zhurzhenko Tatʹi͡ana

Titolo

Borderlands into bordered lands : geopolitics of identity in post-Soviet Ukraine / / Tatiana Zhurzhenko ; with a foreword by Dieter Segert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2014

ISBN

3-8382-6042-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society

Disciplina

947.7086

Soggetti

Geopolitics - Ukraine

Ukraine Boundaries Russia

Russia Boundaries Ukraine

Ukraine Politics and government 1991-2014

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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