A New Framework for Understanding Nationalisms in Ukraine: Democratic Revolutions, Separatism and Russian Hybrid War
Journal: Geopolitics History and International Relations
Year: 2015

1. IntroductionUkraine is a country with competing nationalisms and cultural orientations that are a product of the country's colonization by imperial powers and the legacies of Soviet totalitarianism that has produced a regionally diverse country. Although traditionally depicted as a country divided into two linguistic groups (Russian and Ukrainian) the reality is more complex as this ignores a large number of bilingual Ukrainians. The Donbas conflict has shown that language per se is a poor in