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For Russians and Ukrainians 1066 – mutatis quite a lot of mutandis – happened in 988. According to national myth – the kind of myth that becomes an intellectual and functional reality – the definitive event, which gave shape and sense to their early history, was the official conversion of the Rus’ to Christianity under Prince Vladimir I of Kiev. Vladimir's decision was, in that muchoverworked expression, epoch-making. It came to mark the boundary between the ‘before’ and the ‘after’, the ‘us’ and the ‘them’ of native history. Beyond political and economic calculation, beyond the acceptance of a set of beliefs or dogmas or rituals, Vladimir's decision led to the discovery of identity, to the definitive location of the Land of the Rus’ in time and under Providence.
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