A dialogue with Dr. O. Naboka (27.09.2023)
An arranged substantive dialogue between two historians — the channel’s author and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Oleksandr Naboka (Luhansk National University named after Shevchenko). Among the topics is the genealogy of “Mazepism” as a Russian ideologeme: Peter I’s personal grievance against Mazepa, the ecclesiastical “blessing” of Feofan Prokopovich, and the transformation of “betrayal” into a fixed label for anti-Ukrainian irredentism. A comparative analysis of Russian irredentism (more radical than the Finnish or Polish kind) and the situation of Russia’s indigenous peoples — the absence of schools in their native languages as the flip side of imperial logic.
Key moments
- 30:27 The genealogy of "Mazepism": Peter I's grievance, the "blessing" of Feofan Prokopovich
- 30:44 "Mazepism" in Russian ideology as anti-Ukrainian irredentism
- 31:18 Russian irredentism is more radical than the Finnish/Polish kind
- 31:37 From the mid-19th c. Moscow does not recognize Ukrainians as a separate nation
- 32:20 The indigenous peoples of Russia (Tatars, Bashkirs, Yakuts) are Russified, without their own irredentism
- 34:24 In Russia there are no schools with native-language instruction for grades 1–11