UKRAINE, THE (FORMER) CENTER, RUSSIA, AND RUSSIA
In: Studies in comparative communism: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 31-46
Abstract
AT PRESENT, A COMMONWEALTH DOES NOT EVEN EXIST ON PAPER FOR THE FORMER USSR. THE RESIGNATION OF SOVIET PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IN NO WAY SIGNIFIES THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CENTER, BUT THE TRANSFER OF THE IDEA OF CENTRAL POWER INTO OTHER HEADS. THE KEY ISSUE IS THE UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONSHIP, WHICH MEANS THAT RUSSIA HAS YET TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE LOSS OF EMPIRE AND THAT UKRAINE CONTINUES TO PLAY A PRE-EMINENT ROLE IN THE SEARCH FOR RUSSIA'S IDENTITY. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN NEXUS, PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY, AND HOW TO FORGE A NEW UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONSHIP.
Themen
CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, UKRAINE, STATES, COMMUNISM
ISSN: 0039-3592
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