Provost Lecture - Georgiy Kasianov: Ukraine Between ‘the East’ and ‘the West’: The Final Cut?

Georgiy Kasianov is head of the Department of
Contemporary Politics and History at the Institute
of the History of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. He is the
author, editor or co-author of more than a dozen
books and collected volumes on the modern history
of Ukraine and Ukrainian nationalism, including
A Laboratory of Transnational History: Ukraine and
Recent Ukrainian Historiography (2009).
The conventional view of Ukraine, according to
Kasianov, is that it is historically locked in an
ambivalent position between “the East” (Russia)
and “the West” (Europe). Also, it has its own
internal East-West division determined by
different political, cultural and historical legacies.
The recent Maidan revolt started as a protest
against halting the pro-European drive of Ukraine.
Kasianov’s lecture will focus on how contemporary
events in Ukraine, such as the “Revolution of
Dignity” and efforts to bring about broad societal
reforms aimed at future accession to the European
Union, represent the most decisive attempt to
overcome the East-West ambivalence in favor of
the West and Western civilization.

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