The Identity Challenge: The Celebration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv in Soviet Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora in the West (The Case of North America)
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Abstract
The article examines the reaction of the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States and Canada to the celebration of the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv, which was officially celebrated in Soviet Ukraine in 1982, based on the materials of diaspora periodicals. The main positions of various political and ideological circles of the Ukrainian diaspora regarding the anniversary of Kyiv are presented and the multiplicity of receptions of the Soviet celebration is demonstrated. The celebration of the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv in the USSR for various diaspora communities was another occasion to express their position on the Ukrainian Soviet project, and it also revealed deep ideological divisions among Ukrainians abroad. Nationalist, liberal, and Sovietophile diaspora circles offered radically different receptions of the celebrations in Soviet Ukraine, based on profoundly contrasting visions of Ukraine’s past and present. The jubilee of Kyiv revealed the conflict of memories and historical metanarratives and exacerbated the problem of enmity and cooperation with the Ukrainian Soviet project, as well as Ukrainian Soviet political, public, cultural, and scientific figures.The fundamental reason for the intense and emotional reactions to the Soviet celebration, as well as attempts to organize alternative celebrations in the primordialist manner, is determined to be the sense of threatened identity and fear of appropriation by the Soviet project of “Ukrainianness,” which, according to the vast majority of diasporites, especially among the dominant nationalist circles, was possessed exclusively by the Ukrainian community in the West and its political and cultural institutions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".