In search of Ukrainian national identity

Many recent scholars, influenced by nationalist historians, intellectual trends, or political leaders, seek to antedate and create a nation or national identity when in reality none existed. They tend to apply theories based on non-rational, emotional aspects of ethno-nationalism to the formation of national consciousness in general. Thus, the large-scale vertical identity of modern nationalism is projected back into an era which was characterized by a set of horizontal identities. This article seeks to explore the genesis and development of modem national identity in Ukraine during the period 1840 to 1921. Focusing on social-structural and circumstantial conditions, it attempts to demonstrate that the appeals to ethno-national sentiments throughout this period failed to generate a group identity and solidarity among the Ukrainian people. The Ukrainian case, along with that of other subordinate ethnic groups, suggests that nationalism by itself was not operational before the emergence of the so-called nation-states of the 'non-historic' nations of Eastern Europe. The formation of modern nations based on mass national consciousness was accomplished by the centralized bureaucratic state which, through conscious and deliberate socialization, succeeded in transforming potential nations into modern nations

Aesthetics · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Nation-building · National consciousness · National identity · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Ukrainian · Central European national history · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Gender Studies · Law · Soviet and Russian History

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