The Russian<i>Okrainy</i>(Oкраины) and the Polish<i>Kresy</i>: objectivity and historiography
Journal: Global Intellectual History
Year: 2018

The Russian term okrainy and the Polish concept of kresy tend to refer to the same spatial area, or the non-Russian and non-Polish nation-states that after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union extend between the Russian Federation and Poland. From the late nineteenth century through the interwar period, both the terms okrainy and kresy underwrote the Russian and Polish territorial expansion and the mission civilisatrice in these areas, most visibly exemplified by the policies of Russification an