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The Russian okrainy (Oкраины) and the Polish kresy : objectivity and historiography

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Date
02/10/2019
Author
Kamusella, Tomasz
Keywords
'Civilizing mission'
Kresy
Imperialism
Nationalism
Okrainy
Poland
Poland-Lithuania
Post-Polish-Lithuanian states
Russia
DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
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Abstract
The Russian term okrainy and the Polish concept of kresy tend to refer to the same spatial area, or the non-Russian and non-Polish nation-states that after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union extend between the Russian Federation and Poland. From the late nineteenth century through the interwar period, both the terms okrainy and kresy underwrote the Russian and Polish territorial expansion and the mission civilisatrice in these areas, most visibly exemplified by the policies of Russification and Polonization, respectively. Frequently, Russification was compounded with the state-supported spread of Orthodox Christianity, while in Polonization's case with that of Roman Catholicism. These two terms, okrainy and kresy, fell out of official use during the communist period, but resurfaced in Russia and Poland for a variety of ideologized ends by the turn of the twenty-first century, with little respect for the countries and nations concerned.
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Kamusella , T 2019 , ' The Russian okrainy (Oкраины) and the Polish kresy : objectivity and historiography ' , Global Intellectual History , vol. 4 , no. 4 , pp. 347-368 . https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1511186
Publication
Global Intellectual History
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1511186
ISSN
2380-1883
Type
Journal article
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© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1511186
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19540

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