Talk:Greater Ukraine

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wildly inaccurate

For starters 'Greater Ukraine' typically refers to central Ukraine in much the same way that Greater Poland refers to a region of Poland. Further, the rest of this article is entirely un-cited and probably made up, given that one of the citations doesn't contain any of the information on this page and the other is in russian and refers to an largely obscure figure. blindlynx (talk) 21:53, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm concerned, too. I checked both current sources and I don't see anything meaningful in them to contribute to the definition of the article. ManyAreasExpert (talk) 19:19, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2 December 2021

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The result of the move request was: Consensus to move (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 23:15, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Greater Ukraine → Ukrainian irredentism – There's no defined "Greater Ukraine", proposals vary, and this name is already sometimes used for central Ukraine like Greater Poland is for a part of Poland (see comment below this RM). Super Ψ Dro 19:27, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

comment Great(er) Ukraine, Велика Україна (Velyka Ukrayina) means something else. But this article should be deleted as it's basically a badly sourced POV fork of Ukrainian nationalism—blindlynx
support per nom --Spekkios (talk) 03:52, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support, I guess, but how about redefining a broader neutral scope, like Geographic definition of Ukraine? For example, devout communist Mykola Skrypnyk petitioned Stalin to include other Ukrainian-inhabited territories within the Ukrainian SSR, and the maps are based on imperial Russian mapping of “Russian dialects.” It could also delve into the earlier history of the name and how it was applied. —Michael Z. 20:13, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe a rewrite of this to turn it into that would work but wp:TNT is likely a better option—blindlynx 17:31, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Found this discussion after I moved the page to "Greater Ukraine". I checked the sources and they have no "Irredentism" mention but they do talk about "Greater Ukraine". ManyAreasExpert (talk) 08:21, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

written by the kremlin

I would say that Russian propaganda had a role here. Reads poorly to the west. 199.243.74.14 (talk) 14:35, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Definition used by the other sources

@Mellk, what "definition used by the other sources" you are referring to [1] ? ManyAreasExpert (talk) 16:01, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look at the cited sources. For example, Ukrainian nationalism in the 1990s: a minority faith says: "For more radical Ukrainian nationalists the diaspora issue goes beyond mere concern for language and culture... many still hark back to Mikhnovs’kyi’s vision of a Greater Ukraine stretching from the Carpathians to the Caucasus. Just as nostalgic Russian nationalists would like to restore Russia’s borders of 1914 or Hungarians those of 1867, Ukrainian nationalists tend to imagine the nation at its maximum supposed geographical extent... Today’s would-be Ukraïna irredenta is mainly in the east, on territory that is now part of the Russian Federation... In the west, some radical nationalists would also covet the left bank of the river Dniester in Moldova, the Presov region in north-east Slovakia, the Cheltm and Przemysl territories in south-east Poland, the Brest region in south-west Belarus, and possibly southern Bukovyna and the area around Maramures in Romania." (pp. 181–182). Therefore, I do not see why these sources are being cited when none of this is mentioned, only Hrushevsky. Maybe Hrushevsky can be mentioned in a history of the concept section, but only mentioning him in the opening is WP:UNDUE. Mellk (talk) 21:41, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So, what kind of a definition can we extract from here?

Very little. Here, I found more elaborative source, but it's in Ukrainian - Концепт «Велика Україна» у вітчизняній політичній думці . ManyAreasExpert (talk) 21:55, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview, Volume 4: 1989 to Present says: "Ukrainian ethnic nationalists share one idea with their ethnic Russian counterparts: the rejection of post-Soviet Ukraine as the homeland for Ukrainians. Both groups want to expand the borders of the state to its 'ethnographic borders'... Ethnic Ukrainian nationalists seek to incorporate territory in Poland, Slovakia, Moldova, Belarus, and Russia into a 'greater Ukraine.'" (pp. 1627—1628). Mellk (talk) 22:08, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So, another passing mention, I wonder how and what definition can you derive from here? ManyAreasExpert (talk) 09:40, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, both sources provide enough detail on what "Greater Ukraine" is and what territories are claimed. Do you instead suggest to frame it on what someone said over 100 years ago when the national project was quite new and there was a need to justify annexing territories? Mellk (talk) 10:10, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

both sources provide enough detail on what "Greater Ukraine" is
... and it would be ... ? ManyAreasExpert (talk) 10:27, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is pretty obvious that this refers to the "ethnographic territory of Ukraine" that Ukrainian nationalists claim encompasses "Greater Ukraine". Europe: A History by Norman Davies has a map for this as well (p. 1315) which shows limit of Ukrainian claims to ethnographic territory of "Greater Ukraine". Mellk (talk) 06:32, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations: "In fact, all those who mapped this greater Ukraine stretching from the Carpathians to the Caucasus consciously or unconsciously had to use ethnographic criteria, since there were no administrative borders that encompassed this space, whether in the past or present" (p. 98). Mellk (talk) 06:33, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See? We are discussing it for 3rd day already and still couldn't come with something meaningful and not vague worth a definition. ManyAreasExpert (talk) 10:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The lead already says that it refers to claims made by some Ukrainian nationalist groups to territory outside of Ukraine which they consider part of the Ukrainian national homeland. It looks supported to me. Mellk (talk) 08:23, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]