In the Battle for Empire: Russian Narratives against Historical Realities

Abstract

A hundred years ago, on December 30, 1922, representatives of the Soviet governments of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasian Republic signed a treaty on unification into a single union state — the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which ceased to exist on December 26, 1991. In the article, the author reflects, why in the modern Russian Federation, at the state level, the collapse of the USSR is considered the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" and why an unbiased study of the causes of the Soviet Union’s collapse, awareness of its historical inevitability and the impossibility of reviving the imperial past are so important today.

Cite this article:
Lytvyn V.M. In the Battle for Empire: Russian Narratives against Historical Realities. Visn. Nac. Akad. Nauk Ukr. 2023. (1): 11—26. https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2023.01.011