‘To peace, to us – and to Donbas’: identity shifts during the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2017

The purpose of the current study was to compare the effect of conflict experience on sociopolitical attitudes, emotions and identity shifts of young people in two cities in the Donetsk province under Ukrainian governmental control. While the first city Kramatorsk fell under separatist control during the outbreak of the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine in 2014, the situation in the second one, Bakhmut, stayed largely calm. &#13;\nThe different experiences of conflict of the informants were p