title: The Concept of Empire and German Sonderwege in the Historical Debate about Ukraine
abstract: The Concept of Empire and German Sonderwege in the Historical Debate about Ukraine Martin Schulze Wessel (bio) SUMMARY Martin Schulze Wessel points to the Russophilic trend that has prevailed until recently in German historiography and has implicitly acknowledged Russia’s entitlement to territories and political control over them in the post-Soviet space, particularly in Ukraine. This attitude is attributed to an uncritically humanizing attitude toward Russia’s imperial past and historical empir
journal: Ab imperio