1. Exploring Emerging Democracies: Preparing Pre-Service Candidates for teaching in a Global Society
Farizeh Bedaiwi, Micheal Bruno, Eric Loesch, Trey Mitchell, Jessica Philibert, Erin Reardon, Patrick Sheehey, Samantha Western

2. Collaboration

3. Introduction What do you feel defines your national identity?
Do you feel you have a strong national identity?

4. Kievan Rus The Importance of the first settlers in the Ukraine
Present day countries that compromised Kievan Rus’:
Ukraine
Western Russia
Belarus.
Different cultures and ethnicities made up Kievan Rus
This area was first settled in 860 A.D. by a Scandinavian Band of peoples known as Varangians.

5. Kievan Rus’—Ethnic Background
Slavic principalities
Rurik Dynasty- first dynasty in Kievan Rus
Beginning of the pattern of foreign influence on the area
Principalities of Kievan Rus

6. Golden Age of Kiev Competetion for rule over Kievan Rus
This competetion for the throne led to much violence amongst the Kievan Princes
Suffering through political, cultural, and economic turmoil
Vladimir the Great ( )
Vladimir the Great

7. Reign of Vladimir to Mongol Invasion
Shift in religious believes
Byzantine Christianity, the national religion
Yaroslav the Wise (1019–1054)
Powerful, but still vulnerable
Soon the principalities formed again as individual entities
End of Kievan Rus’

8. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Ukraine fell under Polish Rule
Religious divisions
Nobles=Catholic Church
Peasants=Eastern Orthodox Church
Enlightened Monarchy
Stefan Batory
Stefan Batory

9. Cossack Era
Cossack soldiers offered increased salary for their involvement in the Polish and Lithuanian war against Russia
Poland went back on their word
Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Treaty of Hadiach
Example of Cossacks

10. Russian and Austrian Rule
Western Ukraine falls under Austrian rule and the rest of the Ukraine falls under Russian rule
Due to the Russo-Turkish Wars, Ottoman Empire lost southern Ukraine
Nationalistic spirit reflected in creative arts
Nikolai Gogol
Massacre of Talerhof

11. Ukraine in WWI Divided in the war
Ukraine caught between the falls of the Russian and Austrian Empire
Between 1917 and 1918 Ukraine in anarchy
Polish-Soviet War- Western part of Ukraine goes to Poland and the central and eastern parts go to the Soviet Union

12. Soviet Ukraine (Ukrainian Soviet Republic)
Ukrainian National Idea
Cultural Revival- “Korenization”
Orthodox Church
Economic Policies
Collectivization
Famine (1933)

13. Ukraine in WWII Nazi Germany + allies invasion of Soviet Union in 1941
“Liberators”
A sovereign ‘Greater Ukraine’
Resistance
Soviets “save”
Myth
Death and
Destruction

14. Soviet Ukrainian Identity
Identification (by Ukrainians)
with Soviet Union
Discrimination under Soviet Union
Soviet Russian Leaders-trusted and identified with Ukrainians
More than any other nationality (since the Jews in the 1920’s)
Independence
Desire

16. Ukrainian Independence
On July 16, 1990 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine.
A referendum and the first presidential elections took place on December 1, That day, more than 90 percent of the Ukrainian people expressed their support for the Act of Independence, and they elected the chairman of the parliament, Leonid Kravchuk to serve as the first President of the country.

18. What are the components of Cultural Identity?
Literature, Folklore, Customs, Music, Art, Social Attitudes and Language

19. One Culture?
Ukraine is made up of the following ethnic groups: Belarussians, Bulgarians, Crimean Tatars, Hungarians, Jews, Poles, Romanians/Moldovans, and Russians.
These ethnic groups have various cultures which derive from the same common family

20. Commonly Overlooked Language as a component of National Identity.
Can these differences cause a split of the country or ethnic separation?

21. Language Laws
Language Laws were passed shortly after the 1991 vote of Independence.
Many of the ethnic groups within Ukraine did not fully support such laws. Some groups believed it gave too much leeway allowing Russian to be spoken unofficially. While others did not want to be forced to speak a language foreign to them.

22. Language in Ukraine
Native language (according to annual surveys by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences):
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005 R
34.7
37.8
36.1
35.1
36.5
38.1
34.5
35.7
34.1
Spoken language in family (at home) (according to annual surveys by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences)
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005 R
32.4
32.8
33.1
34.5
33.4
33.6
36.0
36.7
33.2
34.3
36.4
R/U
29.4
29.6
26.8
28.4
29.0
24.8
25.8
28.0
25.2
26.3
21.6

23. Question
Will this cause a split in the U.S. if it becomes a one language country or a bilingual country.

24. Viktor Yushchenko-President
Our Ukraine Bloc
free market economy
pro-West foreign policy
support from Western Ukraine
Ukrainian nationalism

25. Viktor Yanukovych-Prime Minister
Party of the Regions
largest party in parliament
support from Eastern Ukraine
support of close ties with Russia
defends government of a few strong economic and political groups

26. January 2005
Yushchenko was sworn into the presidency. He won a re-vote against Yanukovych after the results of an initial presidential poll favoring Yanukovych were thrown out by the country’s Supreme Court following allegations of fraud.

27. January 2006 The parliament voted to dissolve the government.
Yushchenko, the president, criticized the constitutional changes that limited his authority as president and expanded the authority of parliament. He called for an entirely new constitution.

28. In 2007
To make peace the President (Yushchenko) appointed his opponent from the elections in 2005 (Yanukovych) as prime minister.
Power struggle--President vs Prime Minister/parliament
government is at a stand still because there is a question as to which group has more power the president or the parliament

29. Let’s reflect!
Why didn’t this happen in the US after independence but it can happen in the Ukraine?
How can this crisis be solved?
Does this crisis matter in the wider world? If so, how?