Making of Modern Ukraine 13

War, Republic, Revolutions

This lecture treats the attempts to establish a Ukrainian state at the end of the First World War, under the shadow of the Russian revolution.

The video is here and the podcast version is here or here.

Reading:

Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapters 18, 19

Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, chapters 18, 19.

Rudnyts'kyi, "The Ukrainian National Movement on the Eve of the First World War"

Rudnyts'kyi, "The Fourth Universal and its Ideological Antecedents"

Terms and Dates

1648, 1654, 1667, left bank and Kyiv

1772, 1793, 1795 right bank

1861 end of serfdom

"Donbas" = Donetsk basin 1870s boom

John Hughes Iuzivka Donetsk Stalino Donetsk

Kryvyi Rih, 1880s boom, iron, Zelens'kyi

Internal tariffs, prices of Russian finished goods high

Odesa

Katerynoslav Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro

Pale of Settlement (old Commonwealth)

Prosvita

1526 Mohács, Władysław Jagiellończyk, Louis Jagiellończyk

1772 first partition of Poland, Galizien, Galicia, Halychyna

1775 Bukovina

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

1596 Union of Brest, Uniate, Greek Catholic

Andrei Sheptyts'kyi 1865-1944

Balkan Wars 1912-1913

28 June 1914 Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo

28 July 1914 Austria declares war.

Marx, Lenin

Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points

February 1918 Brest-Litovsk and Ukrain

General assumption after February 1917: some kind of federalization

Ukrainian National Council (Rada), Opened 17 March 1917; Third Universal 22 November 1917 -- autonomy; Fourth Universal, declaration of independence, 25 January 1918

Directory, Symon Petliura

June 1919  White Armies from the Don, Petliura from the west, Bolsheviks defeated

July 1919 remnants of West Ukrainian Army crosses Zbruch

30 August 1919 Galicians enter Kyiv, yield to Whites

December 1919  Third Bolshevik invasion of Ukraine

April 1920 Polish-Ukrainian alliance, May 1920 take Kyiv, August 1920 Warsaw