AUTHOR:
Tomasz Białobłocki
ABSTRACT:
The article is devoted to analyzing the problem of the researches on the origin of Russians and Ukrainians as the indicator of politicization of Russian national minority in Ukraine. There are four basic schools of understanding of the proposed issues, i.e. Russophile, Sovietophile, Ukrainophile, as well as East-Slavonophile. The author motivated that scholars at each historical stage of development interpreted the problems studied in different ways, but always depending on the size of actual material, ideological positions of researchers, as well as on the prevailing political conditions at one time or another. It was confirmed that the formation of a real ethnos is impossible without the creation of a myth in the national context, although it was discovered that colonial attempt to erase historical memory is a process that leads to the loss of national identity and its assimilation in the center of imperial aspirations.
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