CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Ulanbek Kyzy, Suiumkan |
|---|---|
| Title | Where Is Ukraine In The Russian World? Critical Discourse Analysis Of Putin's Speeches In Regards To Ukraine Within The Russkiy Mir Concept |
| Summary | This research aims to critically analyse the Russian nationalist language and its related nationalist identity construction around the concept Russkiy Mir, specifically through Putin's speeches, during 2014 and the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The study aims to scrutinise how Putin and Russia instrumentalised the concept of Russkiy Mir in political discourses, and how its core elements and main arguments were developed in order to justify and legitimise the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The study also draws on the historical development of the concept of the Russkiy Mir in the early 2000s with mere cultural connotation, and the eventual trending of the term in 2014 and now in 2022 with strong political and military implications, and with the construction of Russian nationalist identity. I bring in Norman Fairclough's and Teun van Dijk’s framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, Eric Hobsbawm's Instrumentalist theory, and Laclau’s Floating Signifier theory to analyse the data. The paper concludes that through and within the framework of the Russkiy Mir, Putin’s official discourses offer a strong political narrative that legitimises and justifies Russian aggression in Ukraine, and the national and moral responsibility of Russia to militarily defend its historical homeland and bring together its people under one land and one nation. |
| Supervisor | Prof. Daniel Bochsler |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/ulanbek_suiumkan.pdf |
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