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Solzhenitsyn and the 'Russian Question', Part 23

Who are the Ukrainians? - Part five,

1917-1918

Essay first published in Church and State, Nos.152 and 153, March-September, 2023.
The full text can be downloaded in PDF format here

Demonstration in Kiev/Kyiv in support of the Ukrainian Rada. Note the statue of Khmelnitsky and the Kiev Caves Monastery in the background.


October revolution

Excursus on the Ukrainian peasantry
The Rada and the Bolsheviks

The Rada and the Germans

The Hetmanate

The Bolsheviks in Taganrog
The Germans and Skoropadsky