Identity in Transformation: Russian-speakers in Post-Soviet Ukraine

Volodymyr Kulyk

Europe-Asia Studies, 2019, vol. 71, issue 1, 156-178

Abstract: This essay examines the transformation of identity of Russian-speakers in independent Ukraine. Based on survey, focus groups and public discourse data, it explores the hierarchy of identities of those people who use predominantly Russian in their everyday lives and the meaning they attach to their perceived belonging to the Ukrainian nation. Although many scholars argued after the breakup of the USSR that Ukraine’s Russian-speakers would form into a community distinguished by its preferred language, the present analysis shows that they have instead been transformed from Soviet people into Ukrainians—and that without drastic changes in their language practice.

Date: 2019
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