Regional Identity, Separatism, and War in Eastern Europe: Donbass and Pridnestrovie
Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
Year: 2019

The authors of this article use the examples of the Donbass and Pridnestrovie regions to examine the relationship between regional identity, separatism, and armed conflict. On the basis of comparative methods of analysis, they describe the historical and sociological processes and political conditions that, over the course of history, produced the formation of a specific sense of regional separateness among the inhabitants of those regions. They prove that regional identity need not rest on cent