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Beschreibung
On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians is a polemical historical essay rather than a conventional monograph, advancing the thesis that Russians and Ukrainians constitute "one people" divided by contingency, foreign intervention, and Soviet administrative choices. Its style is declarative, archival in posture, and rhetorically synthetic, moving from Kyivan Rus' through imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet history to frame Ukrainian sovereignty as historically conditioned and politically vulnerable. Read in literary and political context, it belongs to the genre of statecraft-as-history: a selective narrative designed to confer legitimacy on present policy. Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation and a former KGB officer, writes from within a security-centered worldview shaped by the Soviet collapse, Russian great-power traditions, and long-standing disputes over NATO, Crimea, and Ukraine's geopolitical orientation. The essay reflects not only personal conviction but also the ideological vocabulary of contemporary Russian governance, where history is mobilized as an instrument of national identity and strategic argument. This work is recommended chiefly as a primary source for readers seeking to understand the intellectual and rhetorical foundations of Russia's policy toward Ukraine. It should be read critically, alongside Ukrainian, Russian, and Western historians, by students of nationalism, empire, memory politics, and Eastern European conflict.
On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians is a polemical historical essay rather than a conventional monograph, advancing the thesis that Russians and Ukrainians constitute "one people" divided by contingency, foreign intervention, and Soviet administrative choices. Its style is declarative, archival in posture, and rhetorically synthetic, moving from Kyivan Rus' through imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet history to frame Ukrainian sovereignty as historically conditioned and politically vulnerable. Read in literary and political context, it belongs to the genre of statecraft-as-history: a selective narrative designed to confer legitimacy on present policy. Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation and a former KGB officer, writes from within a security-centered worldview shaped by the Soviet collapse, Russian great-power traditions, and long-standing disputes over NATO, Crimea, and Ukraine's geopolitical orientation. The essay reflects not only personal conviction but also the ideological vocabulary of contemporary Russian governance, where history is mobilized as an instrument of national identity and strategic argument. This work is recommended chiefly as a primary source for readers seeking to understand the intellectual and rhetorical foundations of Russia's policy toward Ukraine. It should be read critically, alongside Ukrainian, Russian, and Western historians, by students of nationalism, empire, memory politics, and Eastern European conflict.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788027375851
ISBN-10: 8027375851
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Putin, Vladimir
Hersteller: e-artnow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: e-artnow s.r.o., Za Sidlistem 22, ?-143 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 5 mm
Von/Mit: Vladimir Putin
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,114 kg
Artikel-ID: 126985579

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