SPECIAL SECTION: MULTILINGUALISM IN UKRAINE

Introduction: Ukraine's Multilingualism

RORY FINNIN and IVAN KOZACHENKO

The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych

TARAS KOZNARSKY

Channel Switching: Language Change and the Conversion

Trope in Modern Ukrainian Literature

MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ

Linguistic Conversion in Ukraine: Nation-Building on the Self

LAADA BILANIUK

Ukrainian Cinema and the Challenges of Multilingualism:

From the 1930s to the Present

VITALY CHERNETSKY

"I Will Understand You, Brother, Just Like You Will Understand

Me": Multilingualism in the Songs of the War in Donbas

IRYNA SHUVALOVA

REPORTS:

Multilingualism in the Academy: Language Dynamics in

Ukraine's Higher Education Institutions

OLENKA BILASH

Language Use among Crimean Tatars in Ukraine:

Context and Practice

ALINA ZUBKOVYCH

SPECIAL SECTION: ISSUES IN THE HISTORY AND MEMORY

OF THE OUN III

Introduction: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

and European Fascism During World War II

ANDREAS UMLAND AND YULIYA YURCHUK

The OUN(b), the Germans, and Anti-Jewish Violence in

Eastern Galicia during Summer 1941

KAI STRUVE

The Biography of the OUN(m) Activist Oleksa Babii in the

Light of his "Memoirs on Escaping Execution" (1942)

YURI RADCHENKO

The UstaSas and Fascism: "Abolitionism," Revolution,

and Ideology (1929-42)

TOMISLAV DULIC AND GORAN MILJAN

REVIEWS

Ksenia Maksimovtsova, Language Conflicts in Contemporary

Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine: A Comparative Exploration of

Discourses in Post-Soviet Russian-Language Digital Media

OLGA KHABIBULINA

Mari lle Wijermars and Katja Lehtisaari (eds.), Freedom of

Expression in Russia's New Mediasphere

OLENA NEDOZHOGINA

Nadja Douglas, Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian

Federation

OLEKSII POLTORAKOV

ABOUT THE GUEST EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Autorentext
George Soroka received his PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 2014. He is currently working on a book regarding how contentious historical interpretations function in defining contemporary foreign-policy objectives between Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. Tomasz Stêpniewski is an associate professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He is also the co-editor (along with Soroka) of the book Ukraine after Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security (Stuttgart: ibidem 2018).Rory Finnin is University Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Ukrainian Studies and Founding Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme at the University of Cambridge.Ivan Kozachenko is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the project Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies, which is based at the University of Cambridge and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.Gergana Dimova is an associate lecturer in global politics at the University of Winchester (United Kingdom). She received her PhD in political science from Harvard University and was a Jeremy Haworth Research Fellow at St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge.Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.Julie Fedor is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

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Russian Foreign Policy Towards the "Near Abroad"

This special section deals with Russia's post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called "near abroad," or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia's policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today is paradoxically following an aggressive "realist" agenda that seeks to clearly delineate its sphere of influence in Europe and Eurasia while simultaneously attempting to promote "soft-power" and a historical-civilizational justification for its recent actions in Ukraine (and elsewhere). The result is an often perplexing amalgam of policy positions that are difficult to disentangle. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.

Zusammenfassung
Russian Foreign Policy Towards the Near AbroadThis special section deals with Russia's post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called near abroad, or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia's policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today is paradoxically following an aggressive realist agenda that seeks to clearly delineate its sphere of influence in Europe and Eurasia while simultaneously attempting to promote soft-power and a historical-civilizational justification for its recent actions in Ukraine (and elsewhere). The result is an often perplexing amalgam of policy positions that are difficult to disentangle. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.