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This essay is an attempt to assess the old conflict between the Ukrainian and Russian nations in the light of both the full-scale invasion since 2022 and the larger historical context. The analysis centers on salient cultural issues behind the tense bilateral politics. The narrative focuses on certain historical events that bear an ideological significance for Ukrainian national identity and Ukraine's attitude to the aggressor state. They include the Pereyaslav Agreement, Holodomor, Great Terror of 1937-38, World War II, collaboration with Nazi Germany, and others. Each of these events is differently interpretated by the two sides of the conflict. Thereby purely historical debates exert a heavy political influence on the two states' nation-building and conflictual relations including the present large war. In a previous book, Iaroslav Petik compared the Ukrainian Revolution and the People's Republic of 1917-1921 to the Revolution of Dignity and contemporary Ukraine of 2013-2022. This essay is, in a sense, a continuation of the earlier book, and an attempt to interpret recent events within a larger cultural-historical context.

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Iaroslav Petik (Author) Dr. Iaroslav Petik studied philosophy and psychology at the National Shevchenko University of Kyiv, National Drahomanov Pedagagogical University of Kyiv, and University of Tartu in Estonia. Since 2021, he has been Senior Research Fellow at the Museum for Prominent Figures of Ukrainian Culture in Kyiv. Petik's articles have appeared in, among other outlets, Humanitarnii vizii, Hileia: Naukovyy visnyk, Global Journal of Arts Humanity and Social Sciences, Sciences of Europe, Global Journal of Engineering and Technology, Addaiyan Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Sophia, Practical Philosophy, and the literary journal Vsesvit. Iryna Grabovska (Foreword by) Dr. Iryna Grabovska is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ukrainian Studies of the National Shevchenko University of Kyiv.

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