MAINTENANCE – The enthusiasm of a large part of the Russian population after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and then during the February invasion deeply hurt Ukrainians, analyzes Anna Colin Lebedev in her essay Never brothers? Ukraine and Russia: a post-Soviet tragedy.
Lecturer in political science at the University of Paris Nanterre, Anna Colin Lebedev is a specialist in post-Soviet societies. She just posted: Never brothers? Ukraine and Russia: a post-Soviet tragedy to editions of Threshold.
LE FIGARO. – In your latest book, you trace the evolution of Ukrainian and Russian societies. Did they maintain a closeness despite their political differences?
Anna COLIN LEBEDEV. – Sure. The two companies were part of the same State and shared the same education, the same cultural references, the same professional aspirations, the same ideological questions, especially in the last years of the USSR. A base of proximity has therefore been built but, through my book, I try to show that proximity does not mean similarity.
In Eastern Europe formerly under Soviet rule, many states quickly sought to ‘derussify’ and ‘decommunize’ themselves. Ukraine…
This article is for subscribers only. You have 87% left to discover.
Freedom has no borders, like your curiosity.
Keep reading your article for €0.99 for the first month
Already subscribed? Login