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POST-SOVIET AFFAIRS
Volume 34, Issue 2-3, Pages 119-138Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2018.1451232
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Ethnonational identification; nationality; native language; survey; Ukraine
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- Natalia Danylchenko Fund
- Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta from the Stasiuk Family Endowment Fund
- Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Alberta
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Euromaidan and the subsequent Russian military intervention brought about a perceptible change in ethnonational identifications of Ukrainian citizens. Based on three nationwide surveys from various years, the present article seeks to measure this shift and explore its underlying factors and mechanisms. My analysis reveals considerable changes in ethnolinguistic identifications, practices of language use, and preferences regarding language policies of the state, which can be seen as a kind of bottom-up de-Russification, a popular drift away from Russianness. At the same time, I demonstrate that changes in identifications by nationality and native language are related to changes in the perceptions of these categories; that is, that they should be conceptualized as measuring people's perceived belonging to both ethnic groups and civic nations. In other words, as people are shedding their Russianness in favor of Ukrainianness, they are also changing the meaning of being Ukrainian.
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