TY - JOUR AU - Michna, Ewa PY - 2022/12/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Between Legal and Real Recognition: The Identity Politics of Lemko Activists JF - Rocznik Ruskiej Bursy JA - RocznikRuskiejBursy VL - 18 IS - SE - Дискурс • Discourse DO - 10.12797/RRB.18.2022.18.01 UR - https://journals.akademicka.pl/rrb/article/view/4848 SP - 53-83 AB - <p>The article analyzes the identity policy pursued by those Lemko activists for whom the political transformation of the early 1990s allowed to express of their identity unfetteredly. The democratization of social life conducted the next stage of Lemkos’ emancipation, which began along with the process of national differentiation of the Eastern Slavs. This paper presents the main challenges that ethnic activists from the group with a disputed by various social actors status have faced. It reveals the emancipation of the Lemko community with a diachronic approach, considering changes caused by the formalization of the group, with its inclusion in the Act of 6 January 2005 on national and ethnic minorities and on the regional languages.</p> ER -