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Untangling the Russian-Ukrainian Knot: Representations of the neo-imperialistic Russian political discourse and its analysis in the Polish press materials in the period of 2013–2014 and 2022

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Hlebowicz S.

Bezpieczeństwo. Teoria i Praktyka

2023

vol. LII

issue 3

81-92

Military conflicts have symbolic foundations. Be it religion, identity, values, or language, they all may serve as ‘weapons of war’ that either help to rationalize the military action or mobilize the nation. The Russian-Ukrainian war is no exception. The ongoing conflict exceeds the premises of a geo-political game or a socioeconomic ambition and proves itself to be deeply entrenched in a cultural conflict between the two countries. Therefore, the thrust of the paper is to explore the cultural-historical context of the Russia-Ukraine war.Russian imperialistic desires have been whetted by neo-romantic historical narration for the past two decades. The article comprises of two parts – historical and empirical. When the former depicts the history of direct imperial Russian rule over Ukraine, then the latter is a critical overview of Polish press materials commenting on the change in the Russian political discourse concerning Ukraine in the years 2013–2014 and 2022. Such an analysis sheds different light on the current Russian-Ukrainian war, but it also indicates that the conflict we are witnessing now has been carefully prepared on both military and socio-political levels.

Understanding the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine: The Role of Cultural Context

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Olzacka E.

Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne

2017

issue 4

23-38

Celem artykułu jest poznanie kontekstu kulturowego konfliktu na wschodzie Ukrainy. Z tej perspektywy konflikt w Donbasie należy rozpatrywać nie tylko w kontekście gry politycznej, transformacji społeczno ekonomicznej i interesów geopolitycznych, ale także w świetle zakorzenionego w historii konfliktu kulturowego. Według ukraińskiego badacza, Mykoły Riabczuka, Ukraina jest podzielona nie tyle na etnicznych Rosjan i Ukraińców, ile pomiędzy dwa różne typy ukraińskiej tożsamości. Różnice te zaostrzyły się wraz z wydarzeniami „Euromajdanu”, a następnie w wyniku konfliktu zbrojnego pomiędzy separatystami z Donieckiej i Ługańskiej Republiki Ludowej a nowym rządem Ukrainy. Artykuł koncentruje się na tym, w jaki sposób podziały kulturowe ukraińskiego społeczeństwa od początku ukraińskiej niepodległości są wykorzystywane przez elitę polityczną jako narzędzie polityki symbolicznej, co pod koniec 2013 roku doprowadziło do masowej mobilizacji ukraińskiego społeczeństwa i wybuchu konfliktu zbrojnego.

The aim of the paper is to explore the cultural context of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. From this perspective, the conflict in Donbas has to be seen not only in the context of a political game, socio-economic transition and geopolitical interests, but also in the light of a cultural conflict rooted in history. According to Ukrainian researcher Mykola Riabchuk, Ukraine is divided, not between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, but between two different types of Ukrainian identity. These profound differences have been exacerbated by the events of the “Euromaidan” and, subsequently, the violent conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics on the one hand and the post revolutionary Ukrainian government on the other. This article focuses on how the cultural divisions of Ukrainian society have been used since the beginning of Ukrainian independence by the political elite as a tool of symbolic politics, contributing to the mass mobilization of Ukrainian society and the outbreak of a violent conflict.

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Untangling the Russian-Ukrainian Knot: Representations of the neo-imperialistic Russian political discourse and its analysis in the Polish press materials in the period of 2013–2014 and 2022

Understanding the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine: The Role of Cultural Context