Personal Narratives of Women\u27s Leadership and Community Activism in Cherkasy Oblast

Ukraine\u27s women\u27s movement is part of a complex social field characteristic of formerly Soviet countries, but it also emerges from its own specific political history. Post-Soviet period, (neo-) nationalism, feminism and (neo-) socialism are significant forces shaping women\u27s collective behavior. Their activism resonates with the pre-Soviet liberation struggle while it is shaped also by practices from the recent Soviet past. It also is sensitive to external pressures, including the agendas of Western aid and the Ukrainian diaspora. This study accepts the emergence of non-state women\u27s organizations as indicative of an incipient movement and examines this field of social activism in Cherkasy, a largely rural province of central Ukraine. The inquiry proceeds from the heterogeneity of women\u27s responses to Ukraine\u27s post-Soviet transition, and from the premise that their various life experiences bear on their engagement in activism and choice of organizational commitment. The analysis probes issues of differential recruitment, personal presentations of self as activist, and ideological motivation for participation in projects often melding feminist, nationalist, and/or socialist goals. The spectrum of activism mirrors Ukraine\u27s post-Soviet nation building crisis, and includes both conservative and transformational aspects. An optimistic trend is discerned in the practices of self-directed activist groups seeking affiliation with independent national women\u27s federations and working outside of the para-statal structure that is heir to the Soviet women\u27s councils. Personal narratives of activism reflect positions on gender and nation and suggest a Ukrainian feminist standpoint that is simultaneously supportive of both women\u27s parity and post-Soviet national integrity

The Furies of Nationalism: Dmytro Dontsov, the Ukrainian Idea, and Europe’s Twentieth Century

Using the biography of diplomat, publicist, editor, ideologue, and literary critic Dmytro Dontsov (1883-1973) as a framework, this dissertation places Ukrainian integral nationalism—an authoritarian rightwing doctrine that subordinates individual, class, and humanitarian interests to those of the nation—into its broader regional, cultural, and intellectual historical contexts, from its roots in late imperial Russia to the early Cold War in Canada. As the “spiritual father” of this ideology, Dontsov’s formative experiences in the Russian-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian borderlands, his cosmopolitan interests and aspirations, and his transnational life path were paradoxical yet necessary factors in the development of his worldview and its resonance in Ukrainian politics and literature. He progressed from heterodox Marxism, to avant-garde fascism, to theocratic traditionalism, cultivating a literary circle to forge new national myths, radicalizing a generation of Ukrainian youth, and influencing Ukrainian thought and culture to this day. Despite the ruptures in his politics and the contradictory sources of his ideology, a continuum of what I term “iconoclastic authoritarianism” and “cosmopolitan ultranationalism” links Dontsov, the young socialist, to Dontsov, the elderly mystic.Doctor of Philosoph

Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited

Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture

Ukraine's Many Faces Land, People, and Culture Revisited

Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture

The historical roots of the fractioned nature of the contemporary Ukrainian society

Ankara : The Department of International Relations, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2012.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2012.Includes bibliographical references leaves 183-200.The existence of a regionally divergent Ukrainian society is manifested not only in sharp regional voting differences, but also in differences in political culture, incompatible interpretations of history, conflicting choices of language and opposing preferences on country’s foreign policy orientation in different regions of Ukraine. The fact that divisions mainly correspond to historical regions led to the inference that these regional differences could largely be a matter of different historical experiences, that is different historical legacies, since these regions belonged to different countries during different historical periods. Accordingly, this thesis intends to analyze the historical roots of the extensive and persistent regional differences observed within the contemporary Ukrainian society, and lays the claim that this diversity is a reflection of their ancestors’ experiences in several diverse political dominations simultaneously, experiencing a life in very different environments provided by different sovereigns, and being exposed to different and sometimes even conflicting policies. Comparing the developments in different historical regions, this thesis aims at giving a comprehensive picture as to how the different experiences of Ukrainian people resulted in different self-identifications starting its analysis from the Kievan Rus’ and reaching up until the modern Ukraine. The historical analysis of different historical periods performed in this thesis demonstrates and confirms the fundamental role played by centuries long diverging historical experiences of Ukrainian generations and their historical legacy on the evolution of contemporary regional distinctions.Gürsu, TunaM.S

In which ways is the Ukrainian community in Scotland a diaspora?

Seventy-five years after the arrival of its significant number of post-WW2 displaced persons and refugees, Scotland’s Ukrainian community remains much understudied. The paucity of information concerning this community prompts deeper inquiry. Interdisciplinary research here focuses on this third wave of Ukrainian migration from homeland territories (1940-1954) and draws from a quadratic nexus of diasporic typologies, theories of identity maintenance, nationalist ideologies, and modes of assimilation. I briefly chart the community’s historiographical and geo-political pathways where Ukrainians entered Scotland as officially designated stateless persons or ‘aliens.’ My interpretivist, ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2020 is focused on the salient, socio-cultural, and political dynamics of the first two generational cohorts. The interplay of social, cultural, and political complexities studied here is linked to élite actor attempts to identify and unify the settling community by the creation of formal organisations. A historiography of Ukrainian post war dispersion, homeland orientation and diasporic boundary creation is assisted by narrative extracted from semi-structured interviews, conversations, photo elicitation and embedded research. Concluding scrutiny of the founding generational cohorts is assisted by employing Robin Cohen’s four tools of social science-the emic/etic relationship of embedded research, the time dimension, common diasporic features, and analysis of Weberian ideal types. The first generation is identified as a ‘victim diaspora’ while analysis of the second generation, the ‘bridging cohort’ opens discussion concerning the synergies and impact of collective memory. Qualitative research, quantitative evidence and analysis of hitherto unavailable primary source materials bring new synthesis and knowledge to the discourse

Minority Hungarian communities in the twentieth century.

The authors review the twentieth-century history of Hungarian communities that became minorities within Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Austria after World War I. They trace these developments over ninety years of social, political, economic, and cultural upheaval and examine in detail the relationship between such communities and the majority nations in which they found themselves. The volume also follows changes in these groups' political and legal statuses