Historian Every Saturday: Larysa Yakubova. Rashism: a global neo-totalitarian challenge (30.03.2024)

An academic lecture by Larysa Yakubova, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (“Historian Every Saturday” series), on rashism as a neo-totalitarian challenge. The article draws on the segment about language and colonial policy: a refutation of the Russian propaganda myth of “forced Ukrainization” in the 1920s (in reality it was an ordinary requirement to know the language of the local population; the “violence” in this narrative reflects the colonizer’s indignation). The conceptual part about “rashism” (a political-philosophical analysis of neo-totalitarianism) was deliberately left out of the article. A source for the article on the colonial character of relations between Russia and Ukraine.