Ukrajina, Polsko a scestí ruských dějin
The Curse of the Empire. Ukraine, Poland and the Straits of Russian History. This well-founded work by a leading German historian aims to illuminate from a historical perspective the current aggressive Russian war and anti-Western Russian attitudes with their historical roots. It traces the dynamics of Russian empire-building over the last three hundred years or so, i.e. since the time of Peter the Great. It is not, however, a study of local conflicts – the author places them in the broader European context and explains the interplay, cooperation or competition of the major powers, paying particular attention to the long-standing cooperation between Russia and Germany, the unfortunate consequences of which were evident until recently.
The attempt to build the Russian identity on the basis of the imperial idea, Ukraine being the internal empire and Poland an external empire, has always led to major conflicts that have weakened the empire and led to its disintegration – which is what Schulze Wessel calls “the curse of empire”.
In addition to the power-political aspects, he also analyses the religious and ideological contexts, especially Russian, Ukrainian and Polish nationalism, with particularly impressive portraits of its three representatives – Pushkin, Shevchenko and Mickiewicz.
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| Author: | Martin Schulze Wessel |
| Original title: | Der Fluch des Imperiums. Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrweg in der russischen Geschichte |
| Number of pages: | 360 |
| Year of publication: | 2024 |
| Issue number: | 1 |
| Publication number: | 40 |
| Translator: | Petr Dvořáček |
| ISBN: | 978-80-88411-31-4 |
| Binding: | paperback with flaps |
