https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13518046.2022.2058179
This research note explores the place of Nazism and historical genocide in early-twentieth century Ukraine and the ways in which the evaluation of these historical processes inform current Ukrainian politics. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022 was preceded by two speeches by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, in which he

https://theconversation.com/how-putin-used-propaganda-to-deftly-turn-russians-against-ukrainians-81376
By mid-2014, positive views of Russia had fallen to 52 per cent. Iryna Bekeshkina of Democratic Initiatives has written that "for the majority of [Ukrainian] citizens, Russia has turned into an

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians
Ozero. v. t. e. On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians [a] is an essay by Russian president Vladimir Putin published on 12 July 2021. [1] It was published on Kremlin.ru shortly after the end of the first of two buildups of Russian forces preceding the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27001488
Ukrainian case can be the starting point for solving one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. Introduction R ussian President Vladimir Putin's strategy of "hybrid war" is not a new phe-nomenon. Russia has utilized disinformation campaigns for over a century, beginning under the tsarist regime. During World War I, Russia demonized

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/russia-propaganda-influences-north-korea-china/629627/
If you got your news from Russian state television, which many people in that predominantly Russian-speaking city and about 90 percent of Vladimir Putin's domestic audience did, there was no

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/vladimir-putins-rewriting-of-history-draws-on-a-long-tradition-of-soviet-myth-making-180979724/
A collage of Vladimir Putin placing his hand on Joseph Stalin's shoulder. Richard Cohen's new book Making History details the links between the two Russian leaders. Illustration by Meilan Solly

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01375-x
Since the beginning of the invasion, public opinion polls have generally been showing that 60-70% of Russian citizens support Russia's military actions in Ukraine 1. At the same time, polls in

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg1199
In addition, national and local television (TV) outlets, newspapers, and radio depicted the Ukrainian government as the aggressor, claiming it was engaged in ethnic discrimination and cleansing (9, 10), viciously shelling Russian-speaking residential areas in eastern and southern Ukraine (11, 12), and using civilians as "human shields" to

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00085006.2022.2107835
Ukraine's existence as a political reality is dismissed as an artifice - the creation of external forces that aim to dimmish Russia's rightful historical place. Ukrainian independence and international support for it, Putin contends, have caused irreparable damage to the historical unity of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967067X10000206
Abstract. This paper analyzes the propaganda campaign orchestrated by the Russian authorities with the aim of promoting a version of the country's history for political purposes. This version puts the accent on the exceptionality of Russian historical development, and is geared to endowing the figure of Vladimir Putin - seen as the person

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41304-024-00477-6
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a major global issue since February 2022. Political and scholarly debates have interpreted the main events and their implications focussing on the foremost political players, Russia, and Ukraine, but also on global and regional players such as the European Union (EU), USA, China, and Turkey, which have been influencing the course of the war and will

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/video/wilson-smart-take-how-history-used-propaganda-tool-putins-russia
Izabella Tabarovsky, Senior Program Associate at the Kennan Institute, talks about propaganda, the weaponization of history, and the media that everyday Russians are consuming. ... The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American understanding of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and the surrounding region though

https://www.state.gov/disarming-disinformation/vladimir-putins-historical-disinformation/
For decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to appropriate and exploit history to further his geopolitical aims. After the 1990 collapse of communism in Europe and the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union, one of the remaining sources of national pride for the people of Russia was the USSR's victory over fascism in "the Great Patriotic War" - the evocative name Russians

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/propaganda-and-ideology-in-the-russianukrainian-war/history-of-russianukrainian-relations/1492083C37A404D9B26DE166A3B5D30E
This chapter covers Russian-Ukrainian relations during pre-Soviet times (ninth century CE until about 1921), the Soviet era (1921-1991), and the period between the fall of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991 and the Euromaidan revolution of 2014. ... A History of Russian-Ukrainian Relations; ... Propaganda and Ideology in

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X17300156
Those relations of power construct social classes and are therefore relevant to the study of the imaginaries implicit in memory policies, as well as the class (or classes) that sustain them. What is proposed here is the use of the 'imaginary of class' concept, which, in some. Russian neo-conservatism and its interpretation of national history

https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/28/the-kremlins-propaganda-machine-is-running-at-full-throttle
Mr Putin's propaganda machine is now working at full throttle. Reality be damned: the Russian army is calmly fulfilling the task set by its commander-in-chief, demilitarising and "de-Nazifying

https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article/43/2/167/144/History-as-a-propaganda-tool-in-Putin-s-Russia
This paper analyzes the propaganda campaign orchestrated by the Russian authorities with the aim of promoting a version of the country's history for political purposes. This version puts the accent on the exceptionality of Russian historical development, and is Geared to endowing the figure of Vladimir Putin - seen as the person who has succeeded in carrying out a number of national

https://newsmediarelations.colostate.edu/inthenews/putins-propaganda-is-rooted-in-russian-history-and-thats-why-it-works/
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Colorado State University and Evgeniya Pyatovskaya, University of South Florida discuss how Russian President Vladimir Putin's propaganda is propelling the Ukraine war through Russian media while continuing to intensify tensions with the West. link

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-schools-propaganda-1.6957957
A portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on a page of a new history textbook for high school students mentioning the the country's ongoing military action in Ukraine, during its

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-13/putin-denazification-ukraine-russia-persuasion-power
March 13, 2022 11:06 AM PT. When Russian President Vladimir Putin says he's denazifying Ukraine, he no doubt expects some people, in Russia and abroad, to believe him. Many in the West and on

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/world/europe/ukraine-russia-tensions-timeline.html
Here is a brief recap of their relations in the 20th century: 1918 — Ukraine declares independence from Russia during a conflict fought by multiple countries and armies over several years.

https://libarts.source.colostate.edu/putins-propaganda-is-rooted-in-russian-history-and-thats-why-it-works/
The appeal of Putin's propaganda is its repetition. It draws from similar kinds of disinformation used during Russia's imperial and Soviet eras that recycle age-old narratives of the evil West. Putin's popularity is skyrocketing, with 83% of people reporting in the latest estimates in April 2022 that they support their leader.