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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.
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).
AcknowledgementsList of Maps and TablesTransliteration and DatesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 State Power and the Development of Capitalism2 The Working Class3 Social Democracy and the National Question4 February to October 19175 November 1917: Attempts at Reconciliation6 December: The Failure of Reconciliation7 The First Treaty of Brest Litovsk8 Battles for Kyiv9 Kyiv under Bolshevik Rule10 The Pogroms in March and April 191811 Resistance to the Austro-German Occupation12 Last Days of the RadaEpilogueReferencesIndex
“This rare combination of active participation in the workers’ movement, and scholarly research, has produced a truly groundbreaking work.” —Simon Pirani, People and Nature