الوحدوية الروسية

Orthographic projection of Greater Russia and near abroad:
  The Soviet Union in 1945
  Soviet territories that were never part of the Russian Empire: Tuva, East Prussia, Western Ukraine and southern Kurils
  Russian Empire territories that did not become part of the Soviet Union: Finland, Congress Poland and Kars Oblast
  The Soviet near abroad: Warsaw Pact and Mongolia
  Russian Empire's sphere of influence and Soviet military occupation (Northern Iran, Xinjiang, Manchuria, North Korea and Afghanistan)

Russian irredentism refers to irredentist claims to parts of the former Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union made for Russia. It seeks to incorporate Russians outside of Russian borders into the current Russian state.

The 2014 annexation of Crimea[1] and the 2022 annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine are described as an example of irredentist policy.

Russian irredentists seek to annex parts of the "near abroad", such as the Baltic states, with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine described as a continuation of irredentist claims.

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خلفية أيديولوجية

Specifically looking at the viewpoints of post-Soviet Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Erdi Ozturk, a professor at London Metropolitan University, has commented that irredentist ideology relies upon a "distinction between civilisations by synthesising nationalism with nostalgic visions of history, memory, and religion."[2]


الأقاليم

Settlement of Russians in the countries of the former USSR. Shares of ethnic groups according to the 1989 census , population of countries in 1994
انتشار اللغة الروسية (الداكن: لغة الأغلبية، الفاتح: لغة الأقلية.)

According to Luke Harding of The Guardian , the main territories that supporters of Russian irredentism talk about the need to join are the south and east of Ukraine , Transnistria (a territory not controlled by the Republic of Moldova), the Baltic countries [23] and Central Asia (mainly Northern Kazakhstan ). The main obstacles to this are various political and economic factors, ranging from different economic indicators to political structure ( Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania are members of the European Union andNATO ) and the risks of conflicts (for example, the importance of the sovereignty of Kazakhstan was announced in 2014 by President Nursultan Nazarbayev ).

In many areas of Slavic neo-paganism (rodnovery), Slavs or Russians are credited with historical and cultural or racial superiority over other peoples. This ideology includes Russian messianism , the Russian people are considered the only force capable of resisting world evil and leading the rest of the world. The " Aryan " idea sets before Russia the task of building an analogue of the " Fourth Reich ", a new "Aryan" empire on a global scale. The Russian Aryan myth rejects any territorial disputes, since the Russian people are portrayed as absolutely autochthonous throughout Eurasia. The model of an ethno-national state associated with the separatism of individual Russian regions is less common. Next to the neo-pagans, Russia is supposed to be fragmented into several Russian national states, devoid of ethnic minorities

التاريخ

الامبراطورية الروسية

From roughly the 16th century to the 20th century, the Russian Empire followed an expansionist policy.[n 1] Few of these actions had irredentist justifications, though the conquest of parts of the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus in 1877 to bring Armenian Christians under the protection of the Tsar may represent one example.[3]

ما بعد الاتحاد السوڤيتي

Russian president Vladimir Putin gives a televised address on 24 February 2022 announcing the invasion of Ukraine.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was thought that the Russian Federation had given up on plans of territorial expansion or kin-state nationalism, despite some 25 million ethnic Russians living in neighboring countries outside Russia.[4] Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayres assert that Russia followed a non-irredentist policy in the 1990s despite some justifications for irredentist policies—one factor disfavoring irredentism was a focus by the ruling interest in consolidating power and the economy within the territory of Russia.[5] Furthermore, a stable policy of irredentism popular with the electorate was not found, and politicians proposing such ideas did not fare well electorally.[6] Russian nationalist politicians tended to focus on internal threats (i.e. "outsiders") rather than on the interests of Russians outside the federation.[7]

ضم القرم 2014

It has been proposed that the annexation of Crimea in 2014 proves Russia's adherence to irredentism today.[8][9][10][11] After the event in Crimea, the Transnistrian authorities requested Russia to annex Transnistria.[12][13][14]

The annexation of Crimea led to a new wave of Russian nationalism, with large parts of the Russian far right movement aspiring to annex even more land from Ukraine, including the unrecognized Novorossiya.[15] Analyst Vladimir Socor proposed that Russian president Vladimir Putin's speech after the annexation of Crimea was a de facto "manifesto of Greater-Russia Irredentism".[16] After international sanctions were imposed against Russia in early 2014, within a year the "Novorossiya" project was suspended: on 1 January 2015, the founding leadership announced the project has been put on hold, and on 20 May the constituent members announced the freezing of the political project.[17][18]

On 12 July 2021, the official website for the Office of the President of Russia published an essay On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians written by Vladimir Putin in which he describes historically that "Russians and Ukrainians were one people".[19]

On 21 February 2022, Putin recognised the independence of pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk, as well as their irredentist claims to the Donbas region of Ukraine, and sent Russian troops into Ukraine.[20][21]


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الغزو الشامل لأوكرانيا بعد 2022

On 24 February, Russia formally invaded Ukraine,[22] which is seen as a continuation of Russia's irredentism at the expense of Ukraine.[23] Parallels were made between Putin's irredentism during the Ukrainian War and Slobodan Milosevic's irredentism during the Bosnian War.[24]

On 1 March 2022, images emerged in the press showing Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in front of a map which appeared to show invasion plans for Moldova where Russia already has soldiers in the breakaway region of Transnistria.[25][26]

On 27 March 2022, Leonid Pasechnik leader of the LPR said that the Luhansk People's Republic may hold a referendum to join Russia in the near future.[27] On 29 March, Denis Pushilin leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic talked about a similar possibility.[28]

On 30 March 2022, South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov announced his intention to begin legal proceedings in the near future for annexation by the Russian Federation.[29]

On 8 June 2022, a draft bill was submitted to the State Duma by a member of the ruling United Russia party proposing to repeal the Decree of the State Council of the Soviet Union "On the Recognition of the Independence of the Republic of Lithuania"[30][31][32]

On 6 July 2022, amid the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions, Vyacheslav Volodin the speaker of Russia's State Duma threatened to "claim back" Alaska if the US froze or seized Russian assets.[33]

On 19 September 2022, the public chambers of the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic appealed to their heads of state with a request to "immediately" hold a referendum on joining Russia.[34][35][36]

On 20 September 2022, the People's Council of the Luhansk People's Republic scheduled a referendum on the republic's entry into Russia as a federal subject for 23–27 September.[37] Soon after, the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic announced that the referendum on the entry of the DPR into the Russian Federation would be held on the same date.[38]

On 27 September 2022, during the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, according to the results released by Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts overwhelmingly voted in favor of annexation, with 99.23%, 98.42%, 93.11% and 87.05% of support, respectively. Turnout exceeded 75% in each region and exceeded 97% in Donetsk Oblast. However, the voting has been widely dismissed as a sham referendum.[39][40]

On 30 September 2022, Putin announced in a speech [41] that Russia had annexed the four regions occupied during the conflict.[42]

Laws on annexation of Donetsk (top left), Luhansk (top right), Kherson (bottom left), and Zaporizhzhia (bottom right).
تحليل نقدي للوحدوية الروسية

Some Russian nationalists seek to annex parts of the "near abroad", such as the Baltic states,[43] while some fear potential escalation due to Russian irredentist aspirations in Northern Kazakhstan also.[44]

Looking at the Russian efforts as a whole, the news network Al Jazeera has quoted University of San Francisco scholar Stephen Zunes as remarking, "The level of physical devastation and casualties thus far over a relatively short period is perhaps the [worst] in recent decades which, combined with the irredentist aims of the conquest, makes Russia’s war on Ukraine particularly reprehensible in the eyes of the international community."[2]

U.S. news publication The Washington Post has stated that the Russian government could start a chain reaction of irredentist mass violence, which then "could break the international order".[45]

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ملاحظات

  1. ^ The state expanded eastwards, westwards and southwards, which led to the conquests of Siberia, the Caucasus, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan.


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المصادر

  • Saideman, Stephen M.; Ayres, William R. (2008), For Kin Or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War, Columbia University Press 

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