Roumains et Ruthènes de Bucovine. Réflexions sur la formation du mythe de la ruthénisation

In 1918 Romania acquires new territories on which large Slavic minorities live. The issue of their integration into the national, centralized and unitarian state that is Romania at the time leads, in the interwar period, to the rise of a nationalist discourse, that turns the Ukrainian minority from Bukovina (called the “Ruthenian” minority) into Romanians that cannot speak their mother tongue. The issue of Romanians from abroad in Moldova and Ukraine leads nowadays and since the beginning of the 1990s to a revival of this nationalist myth.