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Book SynopsisIn this important book, influential historian Mark Bojcun explores the social democratic workers' movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire and its impact on the course of the 1917 Revolution. By focusing on the sections of the labour movement built by the Ukrainian, Jewish and Russian parties, Bojcun sheds new light on the way they each confronted national inequality, antisemitic pogroms, and other forms of oppression. The study traces these struggles, and the political solutions to them proposed by revolutionaries, from the inception of the workers' movement through to the First World War, the outbreak of the revolution in 1917, formation of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the country's descent into civil war and foreign interventions in 1918.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps and Tables Transliteration and Dates Abbreviations Introduction 1 State Power and the Development of Capitalism 2 The Working Class 3 Social Democracy and the National Question 4 February to October 1917 5 November 1917: Attempts at Reconciliation 6 December: The Failure of Reconciliation 7 The First Treaty of Brest Litovsk 8 Battles for Kyiv 9 Kyiv under Bolshevik Rule 10 The Pogroms in March and April 1918 11 Resistance to the Austro-German Occupation 12 Last Days of the Rada Epilogue References Index
