Screen LibraryThe Ukrainian-Russian borderland : history versus geography /
"The eastern edge of Europe has long been in flux. As a result, the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries' historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr Kravchenko asks what the words "Ukraine" and "Russia...
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McGill-Queen's University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Montreal : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"The eastern edge of Europe has long been in flux. As a result, the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries' historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr Kravchenko asks what the words "Ukraine" and "Russia" really mean. In The Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, Kravchenko abandons linear historical interpretation and addresses questions of identity and meaning through imperial and geographic contexts. Dominated by imperial powers, Eastern Europe and its boundaries were in a constant state of flux and re-identification during the Russian imperial period. Here, the "Little Russian" early modern identity discourse both connects and separates modern Russian and Ukrainian identities, and gives rise to issues of historical terminology. Mirroring the historical ambiguity is the geographical fluidity of the borders between Ukraine and Russia; Kravchenko situates this issue in the city of Kharkiv and Kharkiv University as both a real and imagined markers of the borderland. Putting the centuries-long Ukrainian-Russian relationship into imperial and regional contexts, Kravchenko adds a new perspective to the ongoing discourse about Ukrainian-Russian relations."-- |
| Carrier Form: | 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-301) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780228011996 022801199X |
| Index Number: | DK508 |
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D851.13.31 K951.26 K951.136 |
| Call Number: | K951.136/K918 |
| Contents: | In Search of "Ukraine": Words and Meanings -- "Malorossiia": A Missing Link in Ukrainian National Development? -- Nikolai/Mykola Markevych: A Historiographer of Little Russia (1804-1860) -- Sloboda Ukraine: A Borderland Region -- Kharkiv as a Borderland City -- A University for Ukraine. |