Anatoliy Anatolich's interview: Rus', revolution, the unfinished collapse of the empire (30.06.2024)

A long studio interview with Vitaliy Dribnytsya on Anatoliy Anatolich’s program — a survey conversation about the history of Rus’, Russian historiography, language, the revolution of 1917–1921, and the present war. Most of it repeats points already covered (Rus’ ≠ Russia, the Rurikids as a later name, the Petersburg/Moscow schools, the Holodomor, the Second World War, Bandera). Three new details are used for the articles: why the oldest copies of the Rus’ chronicles survived on the territory of Russia (and how this prompted Russian historiography to root statehood in Kyiv); the negotiations over the entry of the Kuban and Crimean republics into Hetman Skoropadskyi’s Ukrainian State; and the conceptual frame of the “unfinished collapse of the empire” — the Russian Federation as an empire that has not completed its disintegration, now undergoing its third round.