UKRAINE AGAINST MOSCOW: THE CONSTANTNESS OF HISTORY (The review of Oleksandr Shulgyn`s book "Ukraine against Moscow. 1917". Kyiv, 2023)

Abstract

The book examines the situation of Ukraine during the national liberation struggles of the beginning of the 20th century, especially the struggle of Ukrainians against Moscow in 1917-1918. The events of 1917-1918 in Kyiv and Petrograd are described by O. Shulgyn with the scrupulousness of a historian and the emotionality of a true patriot of Ukraine. The book was published in 1935 in Paris. It published in French. The authentic title is "Ukraine contre Moscou (1917)". O. Shulgyn`s work was translated into Ukrainian for the first time already in our time by Olena Leontovych and published in 2023 in Kyiv. Oleksandr Shulgyn (1889–1960) was the first Minister of Foreign Affairs in the history of the Ukrainian People`s Republic (UNR), one of the dignitaries of Ukraine as a talented publicist, politician, historian, public and statesman. Oleksandr Shulgyn`s work ―Ukraine against Moscow. 1917‖ is relevant for the warring Ukrainian community. And not only because it presents the unique experience of an active and thinking event participant. Today, this book "works" as an example of Ukraine`s advocacy in the world, such an urgent problem now, as well as in those distant years of the first quarter of the 20th century, in the thirties, forties, and ultimately all the years of the 20th century. The need to be heard by the world for Ukraine and Ukrainians, unfortunately, remains extremely acute even today.