The contours of civic and ethnic national identification in Ukraine

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Research for this article was supported by a Shklar Fellowship at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in its Origins and Background (New York, Macmillan, 1946). Ibid., p. 329. Mark R. Beissinger, ‘State Building in the Shadow of an Empire-State: The Soviet Legacy in Post-Soviet Politics’, in Karen Dawisha South-East (Donetsk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa), Kyiv City and Crimea. As discussed earlier, the results of the questions on whether being an ethnic Ukrainian or an Orthodox believer is important to being a real member of the Ukrainian nation are inconclusive. Only a minority of respondents believes these traits are important, and thus we cannot say that the Ethnic Ukrainian identity (for the first question) or Eastern Slavic identity (for the second) is supported. At the same time, we cannot say that these results favour the opposite identity in each case.