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22: Ukrainian Ideas in the 21st Century

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine

The Russian Empire vis-a-vis Ukraine is simultaneously inferior and superior at the same time. This is because this is the place that actually allows us to become the Europeans, right? That can never be said out loud, right? So there's this deep tension which is built into all of this. Another part of this has to do with an encounter in religion. For many centuries the relationship between the church and the state was rocky and uneven.

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