Briefly about the UNR: A Street Conversation on the Central Rada and the Universals (25.11.2021)

A street conversation in which Vitaliy Dribnytsia, at the interlocutor’s request, “briefly explains what the UNR was.” Dribnytsia lays out the early phase of the Ukrainian Revolution in sequence: the collapse of the Russian Empire after the February Revolution of 1917, the rise of the Central Rada as a Ukrainian parliament, the First Universal (autonomy within a democratic federal Russia), the negotiations with the Provisional Government and the arrival of Kerensky’s delegation in July 1917, the Second Universal, the formation of the General Secretariat headed by Vynnychenko — and then the October coup, the Third Universal, Soviet Russia’s war against the UNR, and the Hetmanate coup. The material complements the article on the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921 with the early phase it had been missing.