Edited by Andrew Andersen

 

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UKRAINE

 

 

    

 

WE ARE SORRY,

THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

 

MOST OF THE ARTICLES DO NOT WORK YET, BUT THE MAPS BELOW DO.

PLEASE CHECK THEM AND COME BACK LATER

 

 

 

CLICK ON THE ABOVE PICTURE

TO LISTEN TO WEST-UKRAINIAN

BATTLE- & GUERILLA SONGS

 

     CONTENTS

 

 

Pre-history 

 

ca 800 - 1236

Kievan Rus

 

ca 1237 - 1360

The Mongols and the Great Transformation

 

ca 1250 - 1349

Galician Rus

 

     1362 - 1385

The Lithuanian Period

 

     1385 - 1795

The Lithuanian-Polish Period

 

     1648 - 1667

The Cossack Revolution and the Cossack State

 

      1595 - 1947

The Uniates

 

      1667 - 1917

Dnieper Ukraine: The Russian Period

 

      1772 - 1918

Galicia: The Austrian Period

 

ca 1000 - 1918

Carpatho-Rus and Hungary

 

      1914 - 1918

World War I and Attempted Nation-Building

 

      1918 - 1919

Polish-Ukrainian War

 

      1918 - 1920

Soviet-Ukrainian War

 

      1920 - 1941

Dnieper-Ukraine: The First Soviet Period

 

      1919 - 1939

Galicia-Volhynia in Interwar Poland

 

      1918 - 1938

Carpatho-Rus in Interwar Czechoslovakia

 

      1918 - 1940

Bukovina in Interwar Romania

 

 

      1939 - 1946

World War II and the Postwar Soviet Ukraine

 

 

      1991 - 2005

On the Way to Independence

 

Ukrainians Fighting for Georgia / 1993

 

 

 

 
           home

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

 

 

 

 

Bremmer, Jan, & Taras, Ray,            New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations,

Cambridge University Press, 1997

 

Magocsi, Paul Robert,                        A History of Ukraine,

University of Toronto Press, 1997

 

Plokhy, Serhii.                                     Cossacks And Religion In Early Modern Ukraine.

Oxford University Press, 2001

 

The Black Book of Communism        Harward University Press,  2000

 

 

Subtelny, O.,                                       Ukraine. A History,
                                                            University of Toronto Press, 1994

 

SELECTED HISTORICAL MAPS:

 

   KIEVAN RUS: 1010

   UKRAINE: 1386

   UKRAINE: 1648 - 1667

   UKRAINE: 1668 - 1700

   UKRAINE: 1772 – 1914

   BUKOVINA: 1900 (LINGUISTIC)

   CARPATHO-RUTENIA: 1900

   UKRAINE: Mar.- Nov. 1918

   UKRAINE: Nov.1918 - Mar.1919

   POLISH-UKR. WAR 1918-19

   UKRAINE: May - Nov.1919

   UKRAINE: Apr.- Aug.1920

   UKRAINE: Aug.1920 - Mar.1921

   UKRAINE: 1922 - 1938

   UKRAINE: 1939 – 1990

   UKRAINE: 2002