CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kotenko, Anton |
|---|---|
| Title | The Ukrainian Project In Search Of National Space, 1861-1914 |
| Summary | This thesis is a study of Ukrainian national territorialisation. Considering space as a crucial component of any national movement and nationalism as essentially a territorial ideology, in this project I scrutinise the process of Ukrainian nationalising of space of the Romanov and Habsburg Empires. I argue that Ukraine, as any other nation, was imagined and constructed even in its seemingly most stable and down-to-earth dimension, which is territorial. In treating this kind of construction process as a research problem I demonstrate how at the end of the nineteenth – beginning of the twentieth centuries vast, disjoined and divergent territories of the Romanov and Habsburg Empires were turned into one coherent Ukrainian national space and the territorial concept of the modern Ukrainian nation appeared. As this is a study of a ceaseless process of constant negotiations and discussions between the main actors which aims at presenting a cohesive picture of Ukrainian national space construction, I studied both of its stages: first, how the Ukrainian activists of the nineteenth century tried to create an idea of what the national territory of Ukraine was and, second, how this idea was later brought to life and disseminated. This will give the reader an idea of space which is a social product and thus is subject to change. An important aim of the thesis is to argue that these discussions were not only sui generis, but were also closely entangled with other contemporary contexts: Russian imperial, Russian national, Little Russian, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian, and Czech among others. Thus, in the end, in this way this study contributes both to Ukrainian and wider Eastern-European historiography. |
| Supervisor | Miller, Alexei |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kotenko_anton.pdf |
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