A Short History of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921: A Street Debate (13.11.2021)
A street dialogue between Vitaliy Dribnytsia and a Russian-speaking interlocutor who claims that “the state of Ukraine appeared only in 1991.” In response, Dribnytsia briefly but coherently recounts the history of Ukrainian state-building in 1914–1922: the collapse of two empires, the rise of the UNR, the ZUNR, the Hetmanate and the Directorate, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the war with the Bolsheviks, and Petliura’s treaty with Poland. The material is the basis for the article on the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921 and the refutation of the myth that the Ukrainian state was “created by the Bolsheviks.”
Key moments
- 07:56 Interlocutor: "the state of Ukraine arose only in 1991"
- 09:04 Dribnytsia briefly recounts the history of the Ukrainian states of 1914–1922
- 09:26 The UNR proclaimed on 7 November 1917; the ZUNR with its capital in Lviv; the ZUNR on three fronts
- 10:25 The Hetmanate coup of 29 April 1918; Skoropadsky; the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk recognized the UNR
- 11:48 The Directorate, Vynnychenko and Petliura; Petliura's treaty with the Poles; the war of 1920
- 13:48 The independence of the UNR proclaimed by the Fourth Universal on 22 January 1918; the Third Universal — the UNR within a non-Bolshevik Russia