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12: Habsburg Curiosity

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Ethnographic Idea of a Nation Is Very Powerful in Galicia

After 1867, the Poles are also the beneficiaries of a compromise. They get control over schools, very important. And what does that give for the Ukrainians? It gives the Ukrainians something to struggle for. The Polish argument is that we're a nation because we always were. This is the ethnographic idea of a nation, a very powerful idea and useful in Galicia.

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