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History of Ukraine: 1914-1923

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Western Ukraine in Conflict with Poland and Bolshevism, 1918–1923

Vasyl Kuchabsky

Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2009
ISBN 9781894865135, 9781894865128

The central issues in the book are Ukrainian-Polish relations and the Ukrainian-Polish War of 1918–19. Kuchabsky also examines state-building in the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR) and, to some extent, in the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR), as well as relations between the two republics, within the broader context of European politics, the Paris Peace Conference, the interests of the Allied powers, and the Russian attitude toward Ukrainian independence. Originally published in German in 1934.

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Borotbism. A Chapter in the History of the Ukrainian Revolution

Ivan Maistrenko

Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2007
ISBN 978-3-89821-697-5

A study of the "Borotbisty", an independent party of Ukrainian revolutionary socialists which existed from 1918 to 1920.

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Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The Politics of National Culture

Thomas M. Prymak

Toronto - Buffalo - London: University of Toronto Press, 1987
ISBN 0-8020-5737-3

A biographical study of Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866-1934), Ukraine's greatest historian and first president of the Ukrainian state established in 1917. The study seeks to outline the most important events of Hrushevsky's public life and to paint a picture of how he dealt with the cultural and political dilemmas of his time.

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The Ukraine, 1917-1921: A Study in Revolution

Taras Hunczak (ed)

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1977
ISBN 0674920090

A study of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, which represented the culmination of the Ukrainian national revival that had slowly gained momentum in the nineteenth century to become a political force in the twentieth. The book deals primarily with eastern Ukraine and only tangentially with developments in the western Ukrainian lands of Galicia, Bukovina and Carpatho-Ukraine.

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The Formation of the Soviet Union. Communism and Nationalism 1917-1923

Richard Pipes

New York: Atheneum, 1974 (revised edition)
ISBN 0-689-70158-6

The book, originally written in 1948-1953, deals with the history of the disintegration of the old Russian Empire and the establishment, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Its main emphasis is on the national movements in the borderlands, including in Ukraine, and on the relations between them and the Communist movement.

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History of the Makhnovist Movement 1918-1921

Peter Arshinov

Detroit: Red Solidarity, 1974

An eye-witness account of the peasant revolution in south-east Ukraine named after the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno, the most prominent leader of the movement. English translation of the Russian original published in 1923.

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The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917-1920. A Study in Nationalism

John S. Reshetar, Jr.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1952

A study of the Ukrainian effort to attain indepemdence which commenced in 1917 ans ended in failure in 1920.