This history teacher created a bunch of videos on Ukraine history
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_bcNuRxKtpEpCktnPjYD0yF053mDcDR7I only watched one, 11 min long, focused on brief history before 1918 then mostly 1918.
There are 2 interesting maps.
4:55 shows several states that were part of the Soviets soon after the revolution.
I have heard of the "historically Ukrainian parts of Ukraine" and I think this map shows that.
I think this part independently had a peace treaty with the central powers (Germany et al.) to end WWI which the Russians did not agree with.
https://youtu.be/vzGpUVX0Q54?list=PL_bcNuRxKtpEpCktnPjYD0yF053mDcDR7&t=289 9:57 Shows the Polish areas of Ukraine in 1918. The video ends in 1918.
The map at 9:55 shows the "historically Polish areas of Ukraine."
https://youtu.be/vzGpUVX0Q54?list=PL_bcNuRxKtpEpCktnPjYD0yF053mDcDR7&t=555Another good map in this different video. At 0:55
https://youtu.be/dgbY8J3-wKM?t=51[lowkeysays]https://youtu.be/dgbY8J3-wKM?t=51[/lowkeysays]
The Polish–Ukrainian War (1919) - How Poland Seized Galicia After the Battle of Lemberg
https://youtu.be/6g4o3mILWao Why Did Ukraine Fail to Achieve Independence After the First World War?
7:30 From 1917 to 1920 Kiev changed hands 12 times.
7:50 "Until the end of the nineteenth century, the idea of an independent state had existed mainly in Shevenko's poetry and Cossack myth. With the exception of the Western Ukraine, where the landowners were mostly Poles, the mass of the peasants remained untouched by the intelligentsia's nationalism." - A People's Tragedy" A History of the Russian Revolution (Orlando Figes)
https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Tragedy-Russian-Revolution-1891-1924/dp/014024364X?asin=014024364X&revisionId=&format=4&depth=18:10 The peasants did not support Ukrainian nationalism because the leaders put their own interests above land reforms so there was nothing it for the peasants.
9:00 "The urban head of the Ukrainian national movement was thus cut off from it rural body. What remained was a local peasant nationalism, focused on the idea of the autonomous village, which continued to dominate the Ukraine, making it virtually impossible to rule from cities, until the 1920s."
10:20 After 2 red invasions of Ukraine and peasant rebellions, Lenin decided to court the Ukrainian peasants by creating a USSR version of nationalism. They taught Ukrainian language in schools. 1920s Soviets introduced Ukrainian language into schools, street names, offices, Soviet documents, newspapers. Soviets used Ukrainian language to introduce pro Soviet propaganda. More students learned to read Ukrainian in 1920s then all of nineteenth century.
This pulled the peasants away from the white Russians AND the Ukrainian nationalists. 11:00 Stalin ended this pro Ukrainian practice.
