Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: The gmage of Vllffraine and khe IUkraimians gR R"ssian PoRigicall TRxo"ghg (a860-ti945) Velodymyr A. Potulnytskyi TheperceptionofUkrainebytheRussiaRsisimportantnotonlyasafactorofthe tsarist policy, but also as an element of Russian national ideRtity.New works by Pau} Bushkovitch and David Saunders specify that Russian political opinion in all political camps in the first half of the nineteenth century, for the most part, regarded Ukraine and the Ukrainians positively.}Interest in the Ukrainian language, literature and history was considerable,and Ul<raine's contribution to common Russian or Slavic culture was generally recognized.Many Russians could even be described as Ukrainophiles, although their attitudes were predicated on the view of Ukraine as different from Russia but at the same time a cemplement, not a rival, to Great Russian culture and the assumption, that "Little Russian" local patriotism was perfectly compatible with Ioyalty to the 'fsar.2Studies on the first ha}f ofthe last century3 arrive at a common conclusion that about 1850 an overturn from romantic Russian "Ul<rainophilisrri" to a complete deniai of any manifestations of Ukrainian selthood had taken place (the first features of Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood's Ukrainian national programme of1846-I847; an argument between Pogodin and Maksymovych concerning the heritage of Kievan Rus' in l856).The final overturn is observed after the Polish uprising in l863,when a clearly rnarl<ed anti-Ukrainian official policy was launched (Valuev circular of1863; Ems decree of 1876).4 1 Paul Bushkovitch,"The Formation ofa National Consciousness in Early Modern Russia;' HarvardUkrainianStudies,Vbl.1O,No.314,1986,pp.3S5-376;DavidSaunders,TheUkrainianImpact on Russian Culture, 1750-1850, Edinonton,1986.At the same tirne in his vision of Ul<raine iR Russian culture, for example, Paul Bushkovitch was separated from the Ukrainian perspective, the structure of its reaction and self-articulation.See: Grygorii Grabowicz,Doistorii'ukrai'ns'koi'literatury,I<yl'v,l997,pp.11l-113.2 P. Bushkovitch,"The Ul<raine in Russian Culture }790-1860: The EvideRce ofthe Journals;'Jdhrbiicher.fiirGeschichteOsteuropas,Band39,H.3,1991,S.361.3 2Bushkovitch,Ibid.,S.339-363;D.Saunders,op.ciq G.Lucl<yj,Bet"teen Gogol'andSeycenko.
Author: Volodymyr Potulnytskyi
Language: English
Topic: Soviet and Russian History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W17308907