Serhii Plokhy
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Australians speak a particular variant of English, but for reasons of geography, history, we pretty much believe that despite linguistic unity, these are different nations and different peoples. Some parts of political tradition are in common, others are quite different.
Australians speak a particular variant of English, but for reasons of geography, history, we pretty much believe that despite linguistic unity, these are different nations and different peoples. Some parts of political tradition are in common, others are quite different.
Australians speak a particular variant of English, but for reasons of geography, history, we pretty much believe that despite linguistic unity, these are different nations and different peoples. Some parts of political tradition are in common, others are quite different.
So the same when it comes to language, the same when it comes to political tradition, to the loyalty to the political institution applies to Slavic nations. So that's, again, there is nothing particularly unique about the Slavs in that regard.
So the same when it comes to language, the same when it comes to political tradition, to the loyalty to the political institution applies to Slavic nations. So that's, again, there is nothing particularly unique about the Slavs in that regard.
So the same when it comes to language, the same when it comes to political tradition, to the loyalty to the political institution applies to Slavic nations. So that's, again, there is nothing particularly unique about the Slavs in that regard.
In the first decades of the 19th century, after Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious text emerged that was attributed to an Orthodox archbishop that was long dead, which was claiming that the Cossacks of Ukraine were, in fact, the original Rus' people. and that they had the right for a particular place, for a central place in the Russian Empire. And it tells the history of the Cossacks.
In the first decades of the 19th century, after Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious text emerged that was attributed to an Orthodox archbishop that was long dead, which was claiming that the Cossacks of Ukraine were, in fact, the original Rus' people. and that they had the right for a particular place, for a central place in the Russian Empire. And it tells the history of the Cossacks.
In the first decades of the 19th century, after Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious text emerged that was attributed to an Orthodox archbishop that was long dead, which was claiming that the Cossacks of Ukraine were, in fact, the original Rus' people. and that they had the right for a particular place, for a central place in the Russian Empire. And it tells the history of the Cossacks.
It's the era of romanticism, full of all sorts of drama. There are heroes, there are villains. And the text captivates the attention of some key figures in the Russian intellectual elite in St. Petersburg. people like Kondratiy Ryleyev, who was executed for his participation in the 1825 uprising, writes poetry on the basis of this text. Pushkin pays attention to it as well.
It's the era of romanticism, full of all sorts of drama. There are heroes, there are villains. And the text captivates the attention of some key figures in the Russian intellectual elite in St. Petersburg. people like Kondratiy Ryleyev, who was executed for his participation in the 1825 uprising, writes poetry on the basis of this text. Pushkin pays attention to it as well.
It's the era of romanticism, full of all sorts of drama. There are heroes, there are villains. And the text captivates the attention of some key figures in the Russian intellectual elite in St. Petersburg. people like Kondratiy Ryleyev, who was executed for his participation in the 1825 uprising, writes poetry on the basis of this text. Pushkin pays attention to it as well.
And then comes along the key figure in Ukrainian national revival of the 19th century, Ukrainian a national project, Taras Shevchenko, and reads it as well, and they all read it very differently. Eventually, by the beginning of the mid-20th century, some of the Russian mostly nationalist writers called this text the Koran of Ukrainian nationalism. So what is there?
And then comes along the key figure in Ukrainian national revival of the 19th century, Ukrainian a national project, Taras Shevchenko, and reads it as well, and they all read it very differently. Eventually, by the beginning of the mid-20th century, some of the Russian mostly nationalist writers called this text the Koran of Ukrainian nationalism. So what is there?
And then comes along the key figure in Ukrainian national revival of the 19th century, Ukrainian a national project, Taras Shevchenko, and reads it as well, and they all read it very differently. Eventually, by the beginning of the mid-20th century, some of the Russian mostly nationalist writers called this text the Koran of Ukrainian nationalism. So what is there?
The story, it's very important in a sense that what the authors, and that's what I claim in the book, what the authors of the text were trying to say, they were trying to say that the Kazakh elite should have the same rights as the Russian nobility. and brings the long historical record to prove how cool the Cossacks were over the period of time.
The story, it's very important in a sense that what the authors, and that's what I claim in the book, what the authors of the text were trying to say, they were trying to say that the Kazakh elite should have the same rights as the Russian nobility. and brings the long historical record to prove how cool the Cossacks were over the period of time.
The story, it's very important in a sense that what the authors, and that's what I claim in the book, what the authors of the text were trying to say, they were trying to say that the Kazakh elite should have the same rights as the Russian nobility. and brings the long historical record to prove how cool the Cossacks were over the period of time.
But at the beginning of the 19th century, they put this claim already, they used new arguments. And these arguments are about nation and nationalism. And they're saying that the Cossacks are a separate nation. And that's a big, big, big claim.
But at the beginning of the 19th century, they put this claim already, they used new arguments. And these arguments are about nation and nationalism. And they're saying that the Cossacks are a separate nation. And that's a big, big, big claim.