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19: Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Ukraine Is a Political Nation, Not an Ethnic One

Rudnitski is the most influential voice on behalf of the argument that Ukraine is a political nation, and not an ethnic one. Gedrojtes has a very similar idea about nationhood, which is it's fundamentally a political commitment," he says. "You can't make sense of Ukraine without the Ottomans, the Crimean Tatars"

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