Russia and Ukraine Battling for Historical Truth
.... The national leader uses this excerpt to form a myth and authenticate the legitimacy of the political decision of annexing Crimea to the Russian Federation. In comparison with legal norms, historical legitimization is much stronger and more effective, since legal norms are derivatives of historical tradition and world vision.... ... and continuity of historical epochs have not practically undergone any revisions, with all projects to interpret and describe history (Sergey Solovyov [7] , Vassily Klyuchevsky [8] , Sergey Uvarov's triad of Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality) working ...
20.05.2015