WASILEWSKI Leon - The Ukrainian question as an international issue [1934].

Warsaw 1934, Works of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute. 18x25 cm, pp. 146, softcover. Very good condition.

A work based on lectures delivered in 1933-1934 at the Higher School of the Scientific Institute of Eastern Europe in Vilna. It is a synthetic, historical-political study of the Ukrainian question seen as an international problem. The author conducts the narrative chronologically: from the national processes in southern Rus and the Cossack era (Khmelnytsky, the settlements with Poland and Moscow), through the gradual loss of Ukrainian autonomy and its division between the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. He devotes a large part of the work to the 19th-century national revival, the role of Galicia, the rivalry of Russian, Austrian and Polish influence, and the formation of modern Ukrainian political programs. The book culminates in an analysis of the events of World War I, the Russian Revolution, attempts to build Ukrainian statehood (Central Rada, Skoropadsky, Directory) and conflicts with Poland and the Bolsheviks.