Eco-nationalism, “Green World” Association and path to the independence of Ukraine in late 1980s – early 1990s
Journal: Cherkasy University Bulletin Historical Sciences
Year: 2021

Introduction. The problem of social activism in the Ukrainian SSR after the Chernobyl disaster is widely studied by researchers. American researcher J. Dawson developed the theory of eco-nationalism in the late 1990s, according to which a specific movement emerged in the “nuclear” Soviet republics – eco-nationalism that combined ecological and national movements. She contends, however, that the two movements existed in parallel and their degree of convergence depended on the local context. Novel