Novorossiya and the Transnationalism of Unrecognized Post-Soviet Nations: [book chapter]

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2017
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Minakov, Mikhail
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This article is dedicated to the Novorossiyan political myth among the populations of Southeastern Ukraine, Transnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia. The author analyzes this myth in terms of the peculiar transnationalism and political imagination that led to the formation of a utopian alternative to the existing East European order. The author argues that the Novorossiyan myth is the separatists' response to the needs and demands of groups that feel excluded from post-Soviet title nations. Also, the myth is a response to needs and demands of the populations of unrecognized states - the "invisible nations" that are now seeking a new "international order".
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Donbas, Novorossiya, Ukraine, war
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Minakov Mikhail. Novorossiya and the Transnationalism of Unrecognized Post-Soviet Nations / Mikhail Minakov // Transnational Ukraine? Networks and Ties that influence(d) Contemporary Ukraine / ed. T. Beichelt, S. Worschech. - Stuttgart : ibidem, 2017. - Р. 65-88.