The Ukrainian Question in russian Foreign Policy: A Commentary on M. Kovalevsky’s Article “Russian Political Directions Towards the Ukrainian Question” (1927)
Journal: Sprawy Narodowościowe Seria nowa
Year: 2026

This paper offers a commentary on M. Kovalevsky’s article “Rosyjskie kierunki polityczne wobec zagadnienia ukraińskiego” [Russian Political Directions Towards the Ukrainian Question], published in Sprawy Narodowościowe in 1927. Kovalevsky reveals how Ukrainian identity was denied by the soviet regime, how Ukrainian culture was marginalised or used as a tool to destabilise the region, and how the country’s resources were exploited by the totalitarian state. The present paper traces parallels with