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Language politics in education and the response of the Russians in Ukraine

Pages 475-501 | Published online: 19 Aug 2010

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  • 1995 . Statystychnyi biuleten' Ministerstva Statystyky Ukrainy , : 74 – 81 . For the 1990-1991 data, see
  • 1998 . Statystychnyi zbirnyk seredni navchal'ni zaklady systemy Minosvity Ukrainy (1996-1997 rr.) , 53 Kyïv : VVP . (hereafter Statystychnyi biuleten'); for the 1997-1998 data, see
  • Chinn , Jeff and Kaiser , Robert . 1996 . Russians as the New Minority: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Successor States , 169 193 Boulder and Oxford : Westview Press .
  • 1996 . Rogers Brubaker in Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . The analytical categories of national minority and nationalizing state are introduced by
  • Bremmer , Ian . 1994 . "The Politics of Ethnicity: Russians in the New Ukraine" . Europe-Asia Studies , 46 ( 2 ) : 261 – 283 .
  • Kolstoe , Pal . 1996 . "The New Russian Diaspora-an Identity of its Own? Possible Identity Trajectories for Russians in the Former Soviet Republics" . Ethnic and Racial Studies , 19 ( 3 ) : 609 – 639 .
  • Ibid., p. 617.
  • Arel , Dominique . 1995 . "Language Politics in Independent Ukraine: Towards One or Two State Languages?" . Nationalities Papers , 23 ( 3 ) : 597 – 622 . In Ukrainian schools all subjects are taught in Ukrainian, except for Russian and one or two other languages. However, many Ukrainian schools in the western and central oblasts have stopped teaching Russian since the Ministry of Education made Russian language an optional subject in 1993; In this article, Arel provides an extensive overview of the language policies in administration, education and the media since perestroika. Russian schools, as a rule, teach only Ukrainian language and literature in Ukrainian (Ukrainian language and literature is mandatory in all schools). Other subjects are taught in Russian
  • Kolstoe . "The New Russian Diaspora-an Identity of its Own?" ” . 624
  • Bremmer , Ian . "The Politics of Ethnicity: Russians in the New Ukraine" ” . 269
  • 1996 . Statystychni dani do zasidannya kolehii ministerstva za pidsumkamy 1995 roku (vyshchi navchal'ni zaklady) , Kyïv : Ministerstvo Osvity Ukrainy . For the 1992-1993 data, see Statystychnyi biuleten'; for the 1995-1996 data, see
  • Arel . "Language Politics in Independent Ukraine" ” . 609
  • Ibid., p. 601.
  • Laitin , David . 1996 . "Language and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Republics" . Post-Soviet Affairs , 12 ( 1 ) : 4 – 24 .
  • Arel , Dominique and Wilson , Andrew . 1994 . "The Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections" . RFEIRL Research Report , 3 ( 26 ) : 6 – 17 . The division of regions is based on the one proposed by; They define western Ukraine as the oblasts of L'viv, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ternopil, Volyn', Rivne, Transcarpathia, and Chernivtsi. Central Ukraine comprises the oblasts of Khmel'nyts'kyi, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Kyïv Oblast, Kyïv City, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava and Chernihiv. Eastern Ukraine comprises Donets'k, Luhans'k, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovs'k and Zaporizhzhia. Southern Ukraine is made up of Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Crimea
  • Kaiser , Robert . 1994 . The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR , 302 – 303 . Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press .
  • Pirie , Paul S. 1996 . "National Identity and Politics in Southern and Eastern Ukraine" . Europe-Asia Studies , 48 ( 7 ) : 1079 – 1104 .
  • Ibid. p. 1086. The figure on this page is not clear enough to discern the actual percentages.
  • Chinn , Jeff and Kaiser , Robert . Russians as the New Minority 31 – 32 .
  • For this policy objective, see Derzhavna prohrama rozvytku Ukrains'koi movy ta inshykh natsional'nykh mov v Ukrains'kiy RSR na period do 2000 roku. This document served to specify the provisions of the language law and was put into force by a Cabinet of Ministers decision in February 1991.
  • Arel . "Language Politics in Independent Ukraine" ” . 606
  • 1993 . In Informatsnii zbirnyk Ministerstva Osvity Ukrainy , a bimonthly magazine of the Ministry of Education which is distributed to all schools and which lists orders, recommendations, curricula and more general comments (hereafter Zbirnyk). See also
  • Arel . "Language Politics in Independent Ukraine" ” . 607 for this decree
  • Rapawy , Stephen . 1997 . "Ethic Reidentification in Ukraine" . US Bureau of the Census, International Programs Center, Population Division, IPC Staff Paper , August Rapawy recently claimed that many women have ethically re-identified themselves as Ukrainian since independence. See
  • Arel , Dominique . 1993 . Language and the Politics of Ethnicity: The Case of Ukraine , Urbana : University of Illinois . Ph.D. dissertation; Chapter three
  • Arel . "Language Politics in Independent Ukraine" ” . 606
  • Dinamika otkrytia pervykh klassov s Ukrainskim lazykom obuchenia v g. Doneiske s 1990 po 1997 g.g. (unpublished document of the Education Department of the Donets'k City Administration).
  • 1990 . Vidomosti pro shkoly i uchnivs'ki kontynhenty z Ukrains'koiu movoiu navchannia na terytorii Ukrains'koi RSR , Ministry of Education . For the 1989-1990 data, see; unpublished document of the
  • 1998 . Statystychnyi zbirnyk seredni navchal'ni zaklady systemy Minosvity Ukrainy (1996-1997 rr) , Kyïv : VVP . For the 1996-97 data, see
  • Karklins , Rasma . 1998 . "Ethnic Integration and School Policies in Latvia" . Nationalities Papers , 26 ( 2 ) : 283 – 302 . To the author's knowledge, there are no official statistics on the nationality and language background of pupils. Although the pupils' birth certificates, which are kept in the school files, list the passport nationality of the parents, the Ministry of Education has never ordered local bodies and schools to aggregate these data. In Latvia, on the other hand, the authorities have gathered data on the nationality of pupils; As this survey relied on the nationality of parents as reported by pupils, there may be a small bias in the sample data caused by pupils not knowing their parents' nationality. However, only 6.8 of the pupils indicated that they did not know their parents' nationality.
  • Bremmer , Ian . “ 'The Politics of Ethnicity" ” . 282 According to my survey data, a majority of the Ukrainians who sent their children to Russian classes were not born in western Ukraine. Die Russian cultural associations were registered at the Juridical Department of the L'viv Oblast Administration in November 1997. An interview with Valeri Provozin, chairman of the Pushkin Society of Lvov, provided additional information; In his survey data, which were collected in the beginning of October 1992, Bremmer found that by passport 11 of those who considered themselves Russians in Kyïv, 5 in Simferopol and 47 in L'viv were registered as Ukrainian. The new internal passports issued after independence no longer mention nationality. Thus, for the youngest generation, i.e. those without Soviet passports, the nationality can be established only by self-reportage.

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