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History Russia & The Former Soviet Union

The Workers' Movement and the National Question in Ukraine

1897-1918

by (author) Marko Bojcun

Publisher
Haymarket Books
Initial publish date
Jun 2022
Category
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Revolutionary, Communism & Socialism
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781642597653
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $42.95

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In 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.

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Contributor Notes

Marko Bojcun is a (retired) university lecturer and journalist. His publications include Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine: Selected Essays 1990-2015 (Ibidem, 2019) and The Chernobyl Disaster (The Hogarth Press, 1988).