The origin in the Western region of the Russian Empire such thing as Ukrainians led to the expansion pan-Russian nation into three components: The Russian, Ukrainians and Belarusians. Little Russians, the people who made an invaluable contribution to the development of an all-Russian culture, became the engine of the movement for statehood, to secede from the Russian, for self-identification. But
... [Show full abstract] if the original Little Russians sought only to cultural identity, then gradually radicalizing in the late XIX - early XX centuries. Ukrainophile traffic comes to a standstill and into the bosom of nationalism. What are the causes of nationalism in the territory of modern Ukraine? Were these reasons only consequence of the policy or the Romanovs was available for expansion and external causes of the Russian Empire with the help of the ideology of the Ukrainians? On this and other questions the author tries to answer in this article.
