Between 1921 and 1946, histories of Ukraine were written by Ukrainian scholars living, working, and usually educated in the country and formally supervised by the Ukrainian branch of the Party. Drafts were probably read by friends and there is no record of formal institutional reviews, structured ...
Ukrainian SSRThe aim of this article is to examine the evolution of national communism in Ukraine in the twentieth century. In this paper, national communism in Ukraine is discussed as the only possible legal opposition to the Soviet authority that arose from the contradiction between the interests...
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Khrushchev was born in 1894 in the village of Kalinovka, which is close to the present-day border between Russia and Ukraine. He was employed as a metal worker during his youth, and he was a political commissar during the Russian Civil War. With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked ...
Some argue that Putin’s annexation of Crimea is an attempt to return Russia to the glory of its pre-Soviet days, “as one of the world’s greatest civilizations.”Although Ukrainian nationalism remains strong, particularly in the eastern part of the country, Ukrainian officials and analysts rep...
The Old Russian nationality, from which the fraternal Russian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian nationalities subsequently evolved, took shape in Kievan Rus’. The Kievan period marked the beginning of the formation of a state system among the East Slavs. FEUDAL FRAGMENTATION IN RUS’. Rus’ exhibited ...
THE UKRAINIAN SSR POSTWAR WORKING CLASS (1946 – 1965) IN EVALUATION OF WESTERN SOVIETOLOGY The article describes the most important tendencies in the study of the history of the Ukrainian Soviet working class of the postwar period (1946 鈥 1965) in Western historiography. The achievements, main...
In the mid-17th century the Ukrainians established the Zaporizhian Sich, a Cossack state. This state was located in Ukraine and it was an autonomous military state. In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky organized the biggest Cossack revolt that led to the division of Ukraine between Poland and Russia. ...
A March 1994 referendum witnessed majority of voters favoring continued independence. In 1992 there was a war between Russia and Ukrainian Kazak units in which Moldova too got involved. Presidents Snegur and Yeltsin negotiated a ceasefire agreement in July. A tripartite peace keeping force maintained...
When the administrative boundaries between the republics of the USSR turned into real borders in 1991, eight million ethnic Russians became ‘Ukrainians’ on paper. Kharkov in Ukraine and Belgorod in Russia, for example, are essentially twin cities that were founded by Russian tsars as frontier fo...