Kozak/Cossack

[Evgeny Steiner]

The post-Soviet renaming is researched (with many hilarious examples - but
possibly not as striking as re-baptizing of the poor Russian prince Vladimir
into [the] Ukrainian Volodymyr) in the book of Gasan Gusejnov:
http://speakrus.ru/gg/gus_tom-1-14-10td.pdf

ES

2008/12/7 Valentino, Russell <russell-valentino at uiowa.edu>

> This example ("St. Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine") makes perfect
> anachronistic sense. One merely has to accept the implication that the
> nation of Ukraine existed in 988...
>
> The phenomenon of renaming in post-Communist space has received serious
> scholarly attention. It bears some similarities but is not equivalent to
> renaming in post-colonial space (Bombay, Peking, Bangui). If anyone knows of
> a comparative study or studies of these two phenomena, please pass it/them
> on.
>
>
> Russell Scott Valentino
> Associate Professor and Chair
> Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
> University of Iowa
> 319.335.2827
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Kozak/Cossack
>
> What is offered by changing Cossacks for 'kozaks' is a part of
> appropriation
> of the common history by groups of (the) Ukrainian activists. It is similar
> to the inscription on the monument of the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus
> on London's Holland Park Road erected by "Ukrainians in Great Britain": "To
> celebrate the establishment of Christianity in Ukraine by St. Volodymyr in
> 988". In case anybody has misconceptions about Vladimir, there is a
> clarification: "St. Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine."
>
> ES
>
> P.S. I'll be happy to send a snapshop to those who want to see it by their
> own eyes.
>
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Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
SOAS, University of London
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