UKRAJINSKO-SRPSKE KOMUNIKACIJE KROZ HISTORIJU: KONTAKTI, TIPOLOGIJA, STILISTIKA
RELATIONS BETWEEN UKRANIANS AND SERBIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY: CONTACTS, TOPOLOGY AND STYLISTICS

Summary/Abstract: One of the biggest influences on the relations among Ukranians and Serbians was the process of Serbian migrations on the territory of the south and east Ukraine during the mid 18th century. This research analyzes the methodological principles of the Slavic studies in the 19th century and the following period of the Soviet Slavistics. In the research, the apology of the Russian imperial politics in the colonization of the Ukranian territory is dominant. Ukranian intellectuals of the imperial period tried to subtly, due to the political restraints, point out the negative consequences of such migrations, primarily for the future of Zaporoške Siči. In this paper, the 18th century migration of Serbians towards the Russian empire is viewed from various perspectives. Other than the political motivation of the migration and the Serbian search for “liberation” in the monotheistic Russia, this migration is also analyzed as a form of the Slavic baroque. This myth of Russia being the saviour collapsed, as the immigrants were used to destroy the independence of Ukraine, and, afterwards, were assimilated. Novoserbija and Slavenoserbija were used by the empire as a bait to use the Serbian masses in their imperial expansion, and as an instrument to tear down the backbone of the nation - the Ukranian kozaks. The fate of the Serbain immigrants was similar to the one of the Ukranians, as they were both assimilated. However, the process of migration is reflected in the toponymy, literature, historical research and the interethnic relations on the territory of the south-east Ukraine. Here, it is shown how the toponymies of the immigrants occurred where the Ukranian names already existed, and whether the Serbian namings disappeared or survived in the following historical periods. The Serbian ancestry of a number of the Ukranian intellectuals is emphasized. The relations formed in the 18th century among the Ukranians and Serbians are only one part of the permanent and fruitful relations among these two nations. In this critical period, they were used by the Russian’s anti-ukrainism to show the imperial political orientation

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