Preliminary communication

On the Ruthenians as Ukrainian Subethnos

Evgen Paščenko ; Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Croatia

Abstract

The problem of the Ruthenians is interesting and a certain type of indicator in Slavic ethnology. The interpretation of what is Ruthenian has often been ideological determined. Since it did not have state support, Ukrainian science was kept from defining its attitudes towards Ruthenian identity, among other things also due to the problem of Kievan Rus, as a part of its own historical period. Modern Ukrainian science has produced a series of studies in which the Ruthenians are treated as a subethnic group in the Transcarpathian region, while the political aspect of Ruthenian identity is not accepted. The question of Ruthenians-Ukrainians has special interest in the context of ideological shifting in the context of former Yugoslavia, or respectively in Croatia.

Keywords

separation of Ruthenian identity; Transcarpathian Ruthenians; subethnic group

Hrčak ID:

126634

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/126634

Publication date:

30.12.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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