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Editorial

Editorial The 2022 double issue is fully dedicated to one topic: the Russo-Ukrainian war. The conflict that started with the annexation of the Crimea in Spring 2014, escalated on 24 February 2022 with the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukrainian territory. Historical claims, narratives, myths and other distortions of the past have been at the heart of the build-up to the current war and its legitimation and contestation. Russian president Vladimir Putin has mined the past to construct a narrative of Russian greatness, to support geopolitical claims on Ukrainian territory as historically ‘belonging’ to Russia, and to legitimize a battle against so-called NATO imperialism. Historical myths form the disturbing foundation of xenophobic rhetoric. All of this and more called for a critical reflection on the role history and claims on and about the past play in the current war. Our guest editors Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University) and Lien Verpoest (Leuven University) offer such a critical reflection with this special issue of the Journal of Applied History, which carries the title: Weaponizing History in the Russo-Ukrainian War. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied History Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
2589-5885
eISSN
2589-5893
DOI
10.1163/25895893-bja10034
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Abstract

The 2022 double issue is fully dedicated to one topic: the Russo-Ukrainian war. The conflict that started with the annexation of the Crimea in Spring 2014, escalated on 24 February 2022 with the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukrainian territory. Historical claims, narratives, myths and other distortions of the past have been at the heart of the build-up to the current war and its legitimation and contestation. Russian president Vladimir Putin has mined the past to construct a narrative of Russian greatness, to support geopolitical claims on Ukrainian territory as historically ‘belonging’ to Russia, and to legitimize a battle against so-called NATO imperialism. Historical myths form the disturbing foundation of xenophobic rhetoric. All of this and more called for a critical reflection on the role history and claims on and about the past play in the current war. Our guest editors Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University) and Lien Verpoest (Leuven University) offer such a critical reflection with this special issue of the Journal of Applied History, which carries the title: Weaponizing History in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

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Journal of Applied HistoryBrill

Published: Dec 12, 2022

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