Historian Every Saturday. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s (H. Yefimenko, part 2) (03.02.2024)

An academic lecture by historian Hennadiy Yefimenko (the “Historian Every Saturday” series, part 2) on Soviet Ukraine of the 1920s. Key points: a rebuttal of the cliché that “the Bolsheviks invented Ukraine” — in fact, in 1919, having conquered Ukraine, the Bolsheviks tried to ignore its statehood and did not recognize it; they first formally recognized Soviet Ukraine only on 28 December 1920 (a union treaty), and Ukrainization became a forced concession to the national movement. A source for the article on the myth that “Lenin created Ukraine.”