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The heritage of autonomy in Carpathian Rus' and Ukraine's Transcarpathian region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Paul Robert Magocsi
Paul Robert Magocsi*
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Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Suite 3018, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3
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*Email: ukr.chair@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

As the Soviet Union disintegrated and eventually dissolved in 1991, many of its peoples, both so-called titular nationalities and national minorities, put forth demands for independence or, at the very least, self-rule for territories that were said to represent the national patrimony. Among the many peoples who put forward such demands were Carpatho-Rusyns, who, together with fellow citizens of other national backgrounds, demanded autonomy or self-rule for the region (oblast) of Transcarpathia in far western Ukraine. This essay examines from a historical perspective the question of autonomy or self-rule for Carpatho-Rusyns and for all or part of the territory they inhabit, historic Carpathian Rus'. The autonomy question in Carpathian Rus' is hardly new, but one that goes as far back as 1848.

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autonomyCarpatho-RusynsCzechoslovakiaTranscarpathiaUkraine
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , July 2015 , pp. 577 - 594
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Copyright © 2015 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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