Paper short abstract:

According to some Ukrainian scholars, under the horrors of war, the Ukrainian society, which was divided along with language and ethnic lines, is evolving toward national consolidation and creating a “Ukrainian political nation”. What lessons can be drawn for the Eurasian counties?

Paper long abstract:

The aggression against Ukraine became a shock for all civilized world. Undoubtedly, this war has and will have multi-faceted effects on Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the European and post-Soviet Eurasian countries. It may be too early to argue about the effects of the war on nation-building. However, according to some Ukrainian scholars, under the horrors of war, the Ukrainian society, which was seriously divided along with language and ethnic lines, is decisively evolving toward national consolidation and creating a “Ukrainian political nation”. The resistance of the Russian-speaking Eastern and Southern Ukraine against aggression became a totally unexpected reality for those who wanted to capitalize on the ethnic and language-based separatism and secession in the post-Soviet area. This paper aims to dwell on this phenomenon and formulate the lessons for other post-Soviet countries, especially for Kazakhstan, which is similar to Ukraine has a long borderline with Russia. Kazakhstani society, like Ukrainian, is linguistically and ethnically divided. Also, this paper tries to explore the question, “what role do the democratization process and rising accountability of political power in Ukraine play in the national consolidation?”