A Conversation with a Historian-Archaeologist: the ZUNR, the Act of Unification and Sobornist (07.11.2021)

Date
7 November 2021
Duration
24:51
Platform
YouTube

A street dialogue between Vitaliy Dribnytsia and a Russian-speaking interlocutor who presents himself as a historian-archaeologist. The second half of the conversation turns to the West Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR): the Act of Unification of the UNR and the ZUNR on 22 January 1919, the Soviet–Polish War of 1920, the commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army Omelianovych-Pavlenko, and the ZUNR’s struggle on three fronts. The material complements the article on the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921.

Key moments

  1. 13:15 The union of the UNR and the ZUNR — the Act of Unification of 22 January 1919
  2. 13:39 The Soviet–Polish War — 1920 (April–October)
  3. 14:13 The ZUNR became the Western Province of the UNR with autonomous rights
  4. 14:46 Omelianovych-Pavlenko — a UNR general, commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army
  5. 15:48 The ZUNR fought on three fronts; exhaustion of supplies and defeat
  6. 17:10 22 January 1990 — the "human chain" of unity from Lviv to Kyiv

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