Language and the politics of ethnicity: The case of Ukraine

The dissertation focuses on language revival movements and their crucial role in shaping ethnic politics. Such movements have swept through the former Soviet borderlands since the inception of glasnost', and remarkably enough, attesting to the centrality of the language question, the first revendication of every single republic in 1988-1989 was to enhance the status of the language of its titular nationality by legislative means. Ukraine was selected as a case study because of a national identity made complex of by an unusually high degree of linguistic Russian assimilation, and because of its geopolitical importance.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Arel, Dominique

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kanet, Roger E.

• Language, Modern
• Political Science, General
• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1993 Arel, Dominique

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9411556
(UMI)AAI9411556

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23297