This issue of the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society features a special section on Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics. This special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and Russian narratives of national identity. It gives the floor to Russian and Ukrainian authors with a view to enabling analytical comparisons between the dominant narratives in the two countries, including their cultural, historical, and political dimensions. This juxtaposition of Russian and Ukrainian insights is aimed at deepening our understanding of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.