To Steal the Past: Russia's War on Ukraine's Identity /
When juxtaposed with the practice of aggressive action and the brutal reality of war, Russian ideas appear completely incomprehensible. For more than three hundred years, Russians have cultivated the myth of the community, brotherhood of blood, and the indissoluble bond of the brotherly East Slavic...
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| 505 | 0 | |t Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction to the English Language Version -- 1 Instead of an Introduction: Dreams of Might of the "Russian World" and the Strength of Myths -- 2 Myths and Symbols as an Ideological Tool of Russian State Doctrine: Introductory Remarks -- 2.1 Authority as a Vehicle of Ideological Violence -- 2.2 The Historical-Cultural Standard as an Example of Russian Ideological Violence -- 2.3 The Historical Weapon - a Tool of "Wars of Memory" -- 2.4 Brother or Mortal Enemy? Deprecatory Ethnonymy and the Ethnostereotyping of Ukrainians -- 3 Russian Cultural Imperialism on the Grounds of Eclectic Identity -- 3.1 The Russian Imperial Tri-Colour - White-Gold-Black and White-Blue-Red vs. the Soviet Red -- 3.2 Two Heads, Three Crowns - the Functionally Resounding Attributes of Empire -- 3.3 Byzantine Symbolism in the Service of Authority in Russia -- 3.4 The Mechanics of Operation of Symbols -- 4 Linguocultural Myths as the Foundation of Russia's Imperial Identity -- 4.1 Leitmotifs of Russia's Imperial Discourse: the "Triune Russian Nation" and the "Russian World" -- 4.2 Russian Rus'? Vague Terms Exploited by Propaganda -- 4.3 Russian Speakers: " Russkiye ", " Rossiyskiye " or Perhaps " Sovietskiye " People? -- 4.4 "Big Brother": Russian Cultural Imperialism in Putin's Discourse -- 4.5 Old Russian: a Protoplast of the Ukrainian Language? -- 4.6 The Myth of the "Second Beginning": the Peasant Lineage of Ukrainian Language and Culture -- 4.7 The Myth of "Two Ukraines" -- 4.8 Identity Myths as a Challenge to the Polish-Ukrainian Cultural Dialogue -- 4.9 The Myth of the Destructive Influence of Polish Culture -- 4.1 Ukrainianness as a Challenge for the Russian Identity Discourse -- 5 A Summary: the Russian War for Ukraine's Identity -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a When juxtaposed with the practice of aggressive action and the brutal reality of war, Russian ideas appear completely incomprehensible. For more than three hundred years, Russians have cultivated the myth of the community, brotherhood of blood, and the indissoluble bond of the brotherly East Slavic peoples, while only recently they have unleashed a bloody war against the Ukrainians, killing children and defenceless civilians, burning and destroying everything along the way, and threatening the "mother of all Ruthenian cities" - Kyiv. The Russian invasion is difficult to explain using the concepts of realism or political pragmatism. They are also completely useless for understanding the mentality of Russians. To this day, the majority of Russians do not accept the existence of separate Ukrainian and Belarusian identities, considering Ukrainians and Belarusians as subgroups of the Russian nation, and the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages as dialects of Russian. They tacitly accept the Kremlin's arguments about the need to defend the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Ukrainian lands against the "fascist coup of the Banderites" and to bring about the "denazification" of Ukraine. The aim of the present work is to analyse the causes of this state of affairs from a linguocultural perspective. | ||
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