| Summary/Abstract |
I worked on this article in 1993-1994. Published in Polis magazine
in 1995, it was the first part of a bigger project. The second article,
also published in Polis #2, 1996, analyzed the image of Ukraine and
Ukrainians in the Russian press after the collapse of the USSR. I
thought it would be useful to reread the article written more than
a quarter of a century ago, because some of the issues addressed in
them resonate with the current situation. In those distant days, the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation financed the project,
and colleagues from Lvov helped collect the material. The article is
reprinted unchanged and unabbreviated, but I have provided it with
some comments, which appear in the text as insertions in italics.
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