The defeat that won’t repeat: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a century ago & now
The situation in and around Ukraine is increasingly reminiscent of the Sudetenland Crisis in 1938 and the Cuban…
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Ukrayinska Narodna Respublika (UNR) / Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918-1921)
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Ukrayinska Narodna Respublika (UNR) / Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918-1921)
The Ukrainian People’s Republic or Ukrainian National Republic (Ukrainian: Українська Народна Республіка, Ukrajinśka Narodna Respublika; abbreviated УНР, UNR), a predecessor of modern Ukraine, was declared (on 10 June 1917) – at first as a part of the Russian Republic after the Russian Revolution – but proclaimed its independence on 25 January 1918.
Documentary rediscovers iconic designer of 1917 Ukrainian state symbols. Watch it here
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83-86% of the Black Sea Cossacks in Kuban region were Ukrainian
– There’s a rather widespread Ukrainian stereotype that “Kuban is Ukraine”. In fact, everything was very ambiguous a…
Ukrainian history gift to global history – Prof. Snyder
Historically, Ukraine is not exceptional, but it is “hyper typical” of major trends in the last 100 years,…
National museum exhibits documents from first Ukrainian republic
This envelope has been brought back to Ukraine after almost a hundred years. Sealed with wax, it was…
The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 and why it matters for historians of the Russian revolution(s)
As a hundred years of eyewitness-participant accounts and later historians’ scholarship have long affirmed, the Revolutions of 1917…
Illusion of a friendly empire: Russia, the West, and Ukraine’s independence a century ago
After World War I, the nascent Ukrainian state, which also tried to break away with the empire, did…
The Bolbochan raid: How Ukrainian troops captured Crimea 100 years ago
– Salaam Aleikum! Don’t shoot! Glory to Ukraine! They moved forward and stood under the only lamp…
Ukrainians worldwide to commemorate Act of Unity on January 22
Around three million people in Ukraine took each others hands and connected Kyiv and Lviv via a real human chain.…