Russia Against Ukraine

Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-8382-2154-0
Verlag: Ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

When Russia occupied Crimea and parts of the Donbas in early 2014, Ukraine was a neutral state. Despite this neutrality, Russia violated numerous international agreements, including the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, the Budapest Memorandum, and the 1997 Treaty on Friendship with Ukraine, which explicitly recognized Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Exploiting Ukraine’s non-membership in NATO, Moscow launched a war unseen in Europe since the Second World War. Russia’s focus on NATO is not just misleading—it serves as a strategic distraction from its revisionist aims: challenging the post-Cold War order and dismantling Ukraine as a sovereign nation. Central to the latter is Ukrainophobia, a deeply rooted ideological hostility towards Ukraine, embedded in Russian geopolitical chauvinism. This collected volume explores the socio-cultural foundations and political manifestations of contemporary anti-Ukrainian sentiment within the Russian state and society. The volume’s contributors are Boris Bondarev, Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Yuri Dzhibladze, Alexander Etkind, Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, Andrey Kalikh, Martin Kragh, Sergei Lebedev, Alexey Levinson, Anton Shekhovtsov, Andreas Umland, and Andrew Wilson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shekhovtsov, Anton

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Ackerman, Galia

Bondarev, Boris

Dubrovskiy, Dmitry

Dzhibladze, Yuri

Etkind, Alexander

Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas

Kalikh, Andrey

Kragh, Martin

Lebedev, Sergei

Levinson, Alexey

Shekhovtsov, Anton

Wilson, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Shekhovtsov, Anton
Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov is Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Central European University, Associated Researcher at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna, and Director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity in Vienna. He holds a PhD from University College London (UCL) and is the author of New Radical Right-Wing Parties in European Democracies (ibidem 2011), Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir (Routledge 2017), and Russian Political Warfare (ibidem 2023). Shekhovtsov has also published numerous op-eds in international media including EUobserver, Die Zeit, Le Monde, Prospect, Dagens Nyheter, and El Mundo, as well as academic articles in, among others, Journal of Democracy, Russian Politics and Law, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Patterns of Prejudice, The Russian Review, and Osteuropa.

Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Ackerman, Galia
Dr. Galia Ackerman, a French-Russian historian, is vice-president and editorial director of Desk Russie in Paris.