Historians As Enablers? Historiography, Imperialism, and the Legitimization of Russian Aggression
Journal: East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Year: 2022

This essay raises the issue of historians’ responsibility to the communities that they study. While some purported version of history has been central to the Kremlin’s justifications for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the region’s historians have failed to make a stand against this misuse of history. Moreover, in many instances they endorsed and disseminated the Kremlin’s narratives about Ukraine’s past and present. Aiming to explain the anti-Ukrainian biases that have become well entrench