The Thin Red-Blue Line: Soviet Ukrainian Patriotism Re-Considered - Monthly Lecture with Andrii Portnov
Di 24.03.2026 um 18:00 Uhr
IWM (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen),
1090 Wien - Alsergrund, Spittelauer Lände 3, Wien, 1090
In this lecture, Andrii Portnov will reflect on the immanently complex, essentially contradictory, and profoundly important correlation between the notions of “Soviet” and “Ukrainian.” He will also discuss the Soviet notions of “nationalism” and “patriotism.” Through a close reading of selected texts from the 1920s to the 1980s, Portnov will try to elaborate on the attempts to portray the Soviet ...