რუსეთ-უკრაინის ომი და უკრაინული ნაციონალური იდენტობა

Country of Ukraine had many hardly solvable problems and from 2014 war became one of
them. Parallel to the war, here comes the process of revising existing national identity
narratives. Because of this matter, studding the case of Ukraine from nationalism and ethnicity
studies is becoming very interesting. Following work is concentrating exactly on this case, more
precisely the work is interested in how war is affecting national identity narratives of Ukraine.
Research is discussing three main narratives: Pan-Slavic, “little Russian” (Малороссийская
идентичность) and Ukrainian Ethno-cultural identity. Research problem is to identify changes
of Ukrainian national identity with existing identity narratives and war background. The
research is qualitative and the study analyzes existing academic studies, documents and online
resources. In addition, considerable amount of space in the study is occupied by analysis of
statistical data and various polls.
The thesis is based on the theory of Modernism from the theories of nationalism, within which
thesis talks about idea of "market of ideas" proposed by Snyder and Ballentine. It is noteworthy
that elites in the "market of ideas" created in Ukraine are competing with each other through
the pro-Russian and pro-European narratives. In the pro-Russian circle, the work places the
narrative of the "little Russia", and the narrative of Ukrainian ethno-cultural identity is
considered as a pro-European narrative. In the paper, the contemporary challenges of the
Ukrainian national identity are discussed shortly, main challenges are the revaluation of the
identity narratives and regionalism.