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On 24 August 1991 the Ukrainian parliament, or Supreme Council, declared national independence, their action subsequently being confirmed by 90.3 per cent of the population in a referendum on 1 December 1990. The central task of any contemporary political history of Ukraine must be to try to explain how this occurred. This opening chapter seeks to place Ukrainian nationalism in a theoretical context, without, however, arguing that Ukraine’s entire recent history can or should be retrospectively analysed as a necessary development towards the nationalism of today.
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Kuzio, T. (2000). Theories of Nationalism and the Soviet Ukrainian Context. In: Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333984345_1
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