The Bolshevik Expansion and Occupation of Ukraine (December 1917 – February 1918)
Journal: AREI
Year: 2023

The article presents an overview of the background and course of the first of four Russian-Ukrainian wars during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921: the war unleashed by the Russian Bolsheviks in late 1917. The author shares the story of the Bolsheviks’ political manipulations which preceded the military invasion; he talks of the Bolsheviks’ public hypocrisy, which combined recognition of the right of nations to self-determination with unacceptable demands of Ukrainians. The Bolshevik strateg