State building in revolutionary Ukraine
Subtitle: a comparative study of governments and bureaucrats, 1917-1922
By: Stephen Velychenko
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781442641327
Subjects: Politics and government; Institutions politiques comparées; Public administration; Histoire; Administration publique (Science); Comparative government; Politique et gouvernement; History; Nation-building; Reconstruction d'une nation
Description: "State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine examines six attempts to create governments on Ukrainian territories between 1917 and 1922. Focusing on how political leaders formed and staffed administrations, this study shows that in Ukraine during this time, there was an available pool of able administrators sufficiently competent in Ukrainian to work as bureaucrats in the independent national governments. These people could sometimes implement policies, a significant accomplishment in light of the upheavals of the time.

Stephen Velychenko compares Ukrainian efforts to create an independent national government with the analogous successful efforts made in Russia, Poland, Ireland and Czechoslovakia. He questions the notion that Ukrainian attempts at national independence failed because its society was 'incomplete' and its leaders unable to organize an effective administration. Pointing out that Bolshevik administrations at the time were no more effective in implementing policies than their rivals, Velychenko argues that more effective governance was not one of the reasons for the Russian Bolshevik victory in Ukraine."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-413) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ukrainians and Government Bureaucracy before 1917; title: Bureaucracy Law and Parties in Ukrainian Thought; title: The Central Rada, March 1917 to April 1918; title: The Ukrainian State, April to December 1918; title: The Directory, December 1918 to November 1919; title: Bureaucrats and Bolsheviks in Russia; title: Bureaucrats Bolsheviks and Whites in Ukraine; title: The Western Ukranian National Republic, November 1918 to October 1920; title: Bureaucrats in Other New European Governments.