Украіна: рэвізія нацыі. Прэзідэнты Украіны ды іх разуменне палітыкі ідэнтычнасці
Ukraine: Nation-Building Revisited. The Ukrainian Presidents and their Understanding of Identity Politics

Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that state- and nation-building in Ukraine are far from completion twenty years after the declaration of independence. It holds that the four Ukrainian presidents haven’t done much for institutionalizing the Ukrainian nation-state. The paper focuses on the never ending struggles on the constitution as a model for state-building. For the area of nation-building three aspects of identity policies are: language, citizenship and historiography (emphasizing the Holodomor). The paper shows that policies haven’t been designed to achieve, but mostly to prevent either the “Russian” or the “Ukrainian” side to institutionalize their view of nation and state.

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