The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921: forms of statehood (03.11.2023)

An extensive lecture-monologue by the channel’s author on the forms of statehood during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921 (in answer to a viewer’s question). Alongside the UNR, the Hetmanate and the ZUNR, it examines lesser-known state projects: the Crimean People’s Republic of the Crimean Tatars (Noman Çelebicihan), the sham Bolshevik republics (the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog one — Artyom’s “brainchild” on an economic principle, which Lenin rejected; the Taurida one — created to “cut off” Crimea from Ukraine), the Makhnovshchyna as an anarchist negation of the state, Bolbochan’s march into Crimea and the project of a “greater Ukraine within ethnic borders” at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. It directly refutes present-day narratives of an “originally Russian Crimea” and the “DPR” as a successor to the DKR of 1918.