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The paradoxes of Paul Robert Magocsi: the case for Rusyns and the logical necessity of Ukrainians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alexander J. Motyl
Alexander J. Motyl*
Affiliation:
Political Science, Rutgers University, New York City, USA
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* Email: ajmotyl@andromeda.rutgers.edu
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Abstract

How is it possible for a Rusyn nation-builder to have contributed to the historiography of Ukraine to such a significant degree that one might suspect that Paul Robert Magocsi is really a Ukrainian nation-builder? Like all social-science puzzles, this one dissolves upon closer inspection. Magocsi resembles a Ukrainian nation-builder – or perhaps even is a Ukrainian nation-builder malgré soi – precisely because he is a Rusyn nation-builder. That is so because all nation-builders are always builders of at least two nations, their own and the others.

Keywords

MagocsiRusynsUkrainiansnation
Type
Articles
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 105 - 109
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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