History Russia & The Former Soviet Union
The Workers' Movement and the National Question in Ukraine
1897-1918
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2022
- Category
- Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Communism & Socialism, Revolutionary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781642597653
- Publish Date
- Jun 2022
- List Price
- $43.5
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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.
About the author
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).