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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Политология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-1438</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-1446</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">42653</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-1438-2024-26-4-644-657</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">ZSEGWH</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEORY AND PRACTICE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕОРИЯ И ПРАКТИКА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Functional Role of Historical Analogies in Russian and Ukrainian Presidential Discourses on the Special Military Operation</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Функциональная роль исторических аналогий в российском и украинском президентских дискурсах о специальной военной операции</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0528-8704</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bekliamishev</surname><given-names>Vladimir O.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Беклямишев</surname><given-names>Владимир Олегович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow of the Department of Scientific and Innovative Management</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат политических наук, научный сотрудник Научно-проектного отдела Научно-инновационного управления</p></bio><email>bekliamishev@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">State Academic University for the Humanities</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Государственный академический университет гуманитарных наук</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Political Meanings, Identity Theory and the History of Ideas</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Политические смыслы, теория идентичности и история идей</issue-title><fpage>644</fpage><lpage>657</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-01-29"><day>29</day><month>01</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Bekliamishev V.O.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Беклямишев В.О.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Bekliamishev V.O.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Беклямишев В.О.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/42653">https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/42653</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The application of historical analogies in Russian and Ukrainian presidential discourses in the initial period of the special military operation (24.02-21.09.2022) is noteworthy. The purpose of the study was to identify their functional role. The results demonstrated that two ontologies of the conflict coexisted in the Russian presidential discourse. The dominant ontology, set by a parallel with the Great Patriotic War, assumed the collective West as an enemy, that uses Ukraine as a “foothold”. The second ontology, described through a parallel with the Russian Civil War, gave Ukraine greater subjectivity, assigning the collective West the role of a third party benefiting from the conflict. In turn, the repertoire of historical analogies in the Ukrainian presidential discourse was much broader, but most of the identified parallels were based on precedent situations from foreign history and were used to influence the perception of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict by the countries of the collective West. The noted imbalance was partly since unresolved structural conflicts between Soviet and nationalist narratives prevented Ukrainian elites from effectively using historical arguments in domestic political communication.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Применение исторических аналогий в российском и украинском президентских дискурсах в начальный период специальной военной операции (24.02-21.09.2022) требует внимательного изучения. Цель исследования - выявление их функциональной роли. Полученные результаты продемонстрировали, что в российском президентском дискурсе сосуществовали две онтологии конфликта. Доминирующая онтология, задаваемая параллелью с Великой Отечественной войной, предполагала в качестве врага коллективный Запад, использующий Украину в качестве «плацдарма». Вторая онтология, описываемая через параллель с Гражданской войной, придавала Украине большую субъектность, отводя коллективному Западу роль третьей стороны, извлекающей выгоду из конфликта. В свою очередь, репертуар исторических аналогий в украинском президентском дискурсе был гораздо шире, однако большая часть из выявленных параллелей опиралась на прецедентные ситуации из зарубежной истории и применялась с целью повлиять на восприятие конфликта в странах коллективного Запада. Отмеченный дисбаланс отчасти обуславливался тем, что неразрешенные структурные конфликты между советским и националистическим нарративами препятствовали украинским элитам эффективно использовать исторические аргументы во внутриполитической коммуникации.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>historical analogies</kwd><kwd>special military operation</kwd><kwd>SMO</kwd><kwd>Russia</kwd><kwd>Ukraine</kwd><kwd>historical policy</kwd><kwd>policy of memory</kwd><kwd>political discourse</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>исторические аналогии</kwd><kwd>специальная военная операция</kwd><kwd>СВО</kwd><kwd>Россия</kwd><kwd>Украина</kwd><kwd>историческая политика</kwd><kwd>политика памяти</kwd><kwd>политический дискурс</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Статья подготовлена в рамках гранта Российского научного фонда № 2428-01495 «Военные «мифы основания» в структуре национальной идентичности (на примере роли образов военного прошлого в современном российском обществе)».</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">The article was prepared thanks to the grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation No. 24-28-01495 “Military “myths of the foundation” in the structure of national identity (on the example of the role of images of the military past in modern Russian society)”.</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source></award-group></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Akrivoulis, D.E. (2015). 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