- What is a nation? An answer from Austrian Galicia (1883)Russia’s government justifies its aggression on Ukraine by insisting that Ukrainians are a branch of the Russian nation. Two nineteenth-century historians, one from Paris, the other from Lviv, help us to see through the intellectual poverty of Kremlin’s nationalist fantasy about domination over Ukrainians and Belarusians. On 11 March 1882, exactly 140 years ago, Ernest …
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NEUSTERN is a project exploring how the Austrian government enabled the emergence of a new intellectual elite among the Greek Catholic clergy in Galicia and the impact of this process on the Crownland’s Ruthenian community as a whole.