Ukrainians and Russians have a long history of interactions and mutual influences, which is often used to explain and also to justify the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Kyivan Rus'
editBoth Ukrainians and Russians see the Kyivan Rus' as the beginning of the history of their nations, states, and Orthodox churches.[1] After the Mongol invasion, those parts of Rus' that would later become Ukraine came under the control of Lithuania and Poland, while the north-east around the emerging centre of Moscow was under Mongol control. Both the princes of Lithuania and of Muscovy claimed to be Princes of all Rus'.[2] The legal and bureaucratic traditions of the Kyivan Rus' were inherited by Lithuania, but not by Muscovy,[3] where a new legal system centered on a very powerful tsar was being developed.[4][5]
According to the Russian national narrative, the Russian state was founded in Kiev / Kyiv, then - in the 13th century - its centre was transferred to the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal and soon afterwards to Moscow.[6]
Independent Ukraine
editThe 2011–2013 Russian protests which were sparked by election fraud in a similar way as Ukraine's Orange Revolution, increased Russian president Vladimir Putin's fear of being deposed by a colour revolution.[7] After the Orange Revolution in 2004, Russia launched a decade-long effort to restore its political influence in Ukraine, by playing on existing domestic fault lines and undermining the central government.[8]
References
edit- ^ Kappeler, Russians and Ukrainians p.29
- ^ Snyder, Muscovite Power 19–31 minutes in
- ^ Snyder, Muscovite Power 32 minutes in
- ^ Snyder, Muscovite Power 32–33 minutes in
- ^ Kappeler, Russian History p. 49–51
- ^ Kappeler, Russian History p. 29
- ^ Kappeler, Russians and Ukrainians p.229
- ^ The kremlin's worldview Archived 4 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine, By Nataliya Bugayova, March 2019, page 18
Bibliography
edit- Bugayova, Nataliya (March 2019). "The Kremlin's Worldview". Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- Kappeler, Andreas (2022). Russische Geschichte [Russian History] (in German). München: C.H.Beck oHG. ISBN 978-3-406-79290-8.
- Kappeler, Andreas (2023). Ungleiche Brüder: Russen und Ukrainer vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart [Unequal Brothers: Russians and Ukrainians from the Middle Ages to the Present] (in German). München: C.H.Beck oHG. ISBN 978-3-406-80042-9.
- Plokhy, Serhii (2023). The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1-324-05119-0.
- Snyder, Timothy. The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 7. Rise of Muscovite Power.
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