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Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine - Living Conditions, Violence, and Demographic Catastrophe, 1917-1923 (2021) by Stephen Velychenko is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Between 1917 and 1923, Ukraine experienced an anti-colonial war for national liberation, foreign invasion, socialist revolution, and civil war simultaneously, resulting in almost unimaginable civilian casualties. In Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine Stephen Velychenko surveys the plight of civilians, details the socio-economic background to the political events that unfolded during this time, and documents the country's demographic losses. Focusing specifically on two causes of civilian death, deliberate killing and appalling living conditions, Velychenko outlines prewar improvements in living conditions and describes their decline after 1917. He examines governmental culpability in civilian death and notes that while ideologies and the inability of leaders to control subordinates were undeniably causes of violence, there were other factors at play. Velychenko mines previously unused archival sources to create a picture of the social conditions leading up to and during this catastrophic period, combining this data with stories and reports from memoirs of the period. Readers familiar with the explosion of violence against Jews at this time will find here a compelling framewo

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Author

Stephen Velychenko

Publisher

Mcgill-queen's University Press,

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780228010302

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Science