Western Ukraine at the Turning Point by Matviĭ Stakhiv (.PDF)
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Western Ukraine at the Turning Point of Europe’s History, 1918-1923, Vol. I (1969) by Matviĭ Stakhiv, Jaroslaw Sztendera
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Overview: Of all the Ukrainian territories only Western Ukraine, especially its two component parts – Galicia and Bukovina – had the best opportunity to develop its cultural life, to form an organized socio-economic life, and to transform itself into a political force. This possibility arose from the roots of the “spring of nations,” from the Austrian Revolution in 1848 which provided within this monarchy a short period of constitutional freedom and, from 1860 until the end of its existence, a constitutional era. At the same time the remaining territories of Ukraine, consisting of 845.5 thousand square kilometers in Europe, were under the control of Russian autocracy which decided in 1905, without the participation of various nationalities, to grant a constitution with very limited civil and political rights. It was only then that the Ukrainian literature and press, previously forbidden and now limited by censorship, could show signs of development. With the outbreak of war in 1914, the Tsarist government again prohibited the printing of the Ukrainian word and ordered the closing of all Ukrainian organizations. This move denied the mass of the Ukrainian people the right to legally form political organizations and to become participants in the social and state life from 1848 until 1914. This part of Ukraine had limited political freedoms for less than nine years.
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