Rivoluzione e periferie imperiali: la questione dell’Ucraina nel 1917

Abstract

The essay deals with the impact of the Russian Revolutions of February and October 1917 on the South-Western regions of the former Tsarist Empire (corresponding to its Ukrainian territories). Within the context of «Russia’s continuum of crisis», as some scholars have called the succession of World War, Revolution and Civil War, the Ukrainian national movement made a qualitative leap forward, both in terms of mass mobilization and preparation of plans for autonomy. In the course of a close confrontation with the Provisional Government first, and then with the Bolsheviks in power, it achieved a declaration of independence and the temporary emergence of a new political player on the European scene, the Ukrainian National Republic