What was the good, the bad and the ugly about Ukraine's first independence in 1918? How did it begin and why did it fail? And who was responsible for it? Find out in this latest episode of Wandering the Edge!

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• Bohdan Krawchenko, "The Social Structure of the Ukraine in 1917" in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (1990)

• Rudolf A. Mark, "Social Questions and National Revolution: The Ukrainian National Republic in 1919-1920" in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (1990)

• George O. Liber, "Ukraine, Total Wars and the Dialectics of Integration and Fragmentation, 1914-1954" in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (2015-2016)

• Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History (2009)

• Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe (2015)

Who were the UPA 4? The 4 women of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army who received 25 years imprisonment for their roles in the Ukrainian underground? How did each women even end up in the UPA? What were their roles and what did they sacrifice for their beliefs? Find out in this latest episode of Wandering the Edge!

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• Aliide Naylor, "Do Not Give Away that You are the Enemy - The Story of the Last Link to Roman Shukhevych" in Medium (2022)

• Inna Bereznitskya, "Daria Husiak: 'Nikoly na Zhalila pro te, Chym Zaymalasia'" in Local History (2022)

• Viktoria Diachenko, "Olha Ilkiv, Zviazkova Romana Shukhevycha" in Istorychna Pravda (2020)

• Roksolana Popeliuk, "'Yak ye Natsionalistka i Nationalistykoiu Pomru' - Zviazkova Romana Shukhevycha Olha Ilkiv" in Local History (2021)

• Lesia Onyshko, "Nam Sontse Vsmikhalos Kris Rzhavij Graty..." Kateryna Zarytska v Ukrainskomu Natsionalno-Vyzvolnomu Rusi (2007)

• Sviatoslav Lypovetsky, "30 Rokiv u Taborakh. Istoria Nezlamnoi Pidpilnytsi OUN Kateryny Zarytskoii (Uryvok iz Knyzhky)" in Texty.org.ua (2024)

• Sviatoslav Lypovetsky, " 'Obraz Nezlamnoii': Kateryna Zarytska v Borotbi y Uviaznenni" in Tyzhden (2024)

• Oleksandr Panchenko, "Zviazkova Henerala Shukhevycha. Dolia i Chyn Halyny Dydyk" in Istorychna Pravda (2012)

During Ukraine's first independence drive, the Ukrainian army attempted to break out through the Monarchist and Bolshevik fronts, these two attempts were known as the First and Second Winter Campaigns. Where they successful? Who commanded them? And why are they important to Ukrainian military history? Find out in this latest episode of Wandering the Edge!

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• Oleksandr Skrypnyk, "Pershyj Zymovyj Pokhid Armii UNR i joho Komandarm Omelianovych-Pavlenko" in Istorychna Pravda (2022)

• Y.V. Kotliar, I.V. Bilokon, "Y. Tiutiunnyk v Ukrainskomu Povstanskomu Rusi ta Mykolaiivschyna" in Reabilitovani Istorieiu (2010)

• Tetiana Shvedchenko, "Kris Buriu ta Snih. Pershyj Zymovyj Pokhid Armii UNR" in Istorychna Pravda (2019)

• Volodymyr Barov, "Dovyj Shliakh do Moria: Morska Pikhota UNR" in Istorychna Pravda (2021)

• S. Petliura, "Instructisa Y. Tiutiunnyku pro Zahalni Dii ta Zakhody pid chas Pokhodu v Ukrainy" Hai Nyzhnyk online (original from 1921)

• Viacheslav Vasylenko, "Pidhotovka Antybilshovytskoho Povstannia v Ukraini u 1921" in Z Istorii Spetzsluzhb

• Yaroslav Faizulin, "Bloody Massacre in Bazar" in The Ukrainian Week (2011)

Ukraine's primary source on our Medieval history is the Primary Chronicle. But is it a primary source and what is it exactly? Who wrote it? How did it become so important? And how has it evolved throughout the centuries to use as a political tool? Find out more in this latest episode of Wandering the Edge!

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• Oleksiy Tolochko, "On 'Nestor the Chronicler'" in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (2007)

• Horace G. Lunt, "On Interpreting the Russian Primary Chronicle: The Year 1037" in Slavic and East European Journal (1988)

• Horace G. Lunt, "Lexical Variation in the Copies of the Rus' Primary Chronicle: Some Methodological Problems" in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (1994)

• Charles J. Haperin, The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus Land (2022)

• Stepan Velichenko, "How Valdamarr Sveinaldsson got to Moscow" in Krytyka (2015)

• Wladyslaw Duczko, Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe (2004)

• Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History (2009)

• John Paul Magosci, A History of Ukraine (1996)

Why was Volodymyr the Great - great? How did a legalized bastard become the leader of Europe's largest kingdom at that time? And how did he choose Orthodox Christianity as his new religion to baptize this empire? And why is his influence so great in this modern era? Find out in this latest episode of Wandering the Edge!

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• Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe (2015)

• Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine (1996)

• Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History (2009)

• Yuriy Dyba, "Istorychno-Heografichny Kontetskt Litopysnoho Povidomlennia pro Narodzennia Kniaia Volodymyra Sviatoslavovycha: Lokalizatsia Budiatynoho Sela"in Kniazna Doba: Istoria i Kultura (2012)

• Stepan Velichenko, "How Valdamarr Sveinaldsson got to Moscow" in Krytyka (2015)

• Marika Magi, In Austrvegr: The Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic Sea (2018)

• Leontiy Voytovych, Knizivski Dynastii Skhindoi Evropy (2000)

• Greg Myre & Charles Maynes, "Volodymyr vs. Vladimir: How Rival Statues Explain the Russia-Ukraine Conflict" in NPR (2022)

What was the Prosvita (Enlightenment) Society that was founded in Lviv in 1868? Why was it the single most important Ukrainian society to basically ever exist? And what role did it play in Ukraine's fight for independence, self-sufficiency and cultural history? Find out in this episode of Wandering the Edge!

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• John Armstrong, Ukrainian Nationalism (1980)

• Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (2007)

• Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, "Feminism in Action: The Ukrainian Women's Union between the World Wars" in Women's Studies International (1982)

• Andrew Sorokowski, "The Lay and Clerical Intelligentsia in Greek Catholic Galicia, 1900-1939: Competition, Conflict, Cooperation" in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (2002-2003)

• Hugo Lane, "Class Interest and the Shaping of a 'Non-Historical' Nation: Reassessing the Galician Ruthenian Path to Ukrainian Identity" in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (1998)

• John-Paul Himka, "Voluntary Artisan Associations and the Ukrainian National Movement in Galicia" in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (1978)

• The Encyclopedia of Ukraine, "Prosvita" and "Kachkovsky Society" pages

• V.V. Trofymovych & L.V. Trofymovych, "Supernytstvo Tovarystv 'Prosvita' ta Imeni Mykhaila Kachkovskoho za Vplyv na Ukraintsiv" in Rusyn (2017)

The 1919 Paris Peace talks in Versailles was supposed to be end of war in Europe. But in just 20 years, a world war would begin anew - one of the reasons for which was the outcomes of the Peace Talks. But what was the affect of this peace for Ukraine and Ukrainians? And is there a warning in ignoring the wants and needs of a large segment of the European population to appease bigger nations? Find out in this episode of Wandering the Edge!

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Travel Options:

• Lviv Croissants (37 Nowy Swiat St. Warsaw)

• Piana Vyshnia (39 Nowy Swiat St. Warsaw)

• Czarnomorka (49 Nowy Swiat St. Warsaw)

• Milk Bar (42 Dobra St., Warsaw)

Sources:

• Bohdan Budurowycz, "Poland and the Ukrainian Problem, 1921-1939" in Canadian Slavonic Papers (1983)

• Michael Palij, The Ukrainian-Polish Defensive Alliance, 1919-1921 (1995)

• Kenneth R. Rossman, "The Legend of Versailles", in Social Science (1945)

• Basil Paneyko, "Galicia and the Polish-Ukrainian Problem" in The Slavonic and East European Review (1931)

Ukraine's history has not only been appropriated by Russia for centuries, but its treasures has also been stolen or destroyed by imperial Russia, Soviet Russia and now the Russian Federation. What is missing from Ukraine's cultural treasures, what has Russia and other countries stolen from our archives and what is Russian consciously destroying during this current Russo-Ukrainian war? Find out in this latest episode of Wandering the Edge!

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• The Stolen Treasures (An online catalogue of all Ukraine's stolen heritage that is now in Russia)

• "Scientists Fought Over this Secret for 300 Years: the Grave of Bohdan Khmelnytsky was Found" in The European Times (2021)

• Marc Santora, "Why Russia Stole Potemkin's Bones from Ukraine" in The New York Times (2022)

• Alice Smahina, "Stolen Heritage: Russia's Archaeological Crimes" in Rubryka (online), 2023

• Yevhenia Havryshenko, "Rozryta Mohyla abo jak Rosiany Apropriiuvaly Ukrainsku Spadschynu" in Kovcheh (Online), (2023)

• Denys Samyhin, "12 Archaeological Treasures that Russia Took out of Ukraine" in Ukrainska Pravda (2023)

• "Where is Ivan Mazepa's Grave?" in Den (Online)

What's the history of vodka and vodka distilling? What is so unique to Ukrainian vodka? And what makes it taste so good? And how did this current Russian invasion affect Ukraine's vodka distilleries? And what can we do to support Ukraine reestablish itself as the world best and great vodka distillers? Find out in this episode of an interview with Zirkova Vodka's CEO Katherine Vellinga!

Zirkova's website: https://www.zirkova.com/

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Ukraine voted him the most influential Ukrainian in 2008 but why was Yaroslav named "the Wise"? How much of it was his legal reform and how much of it was his military and diplomatic feats that have earned him his moniker? Find out about this great Mediaeval Kyivan Rus King in this episode of Wandering the Edge!

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• Samuel H. Cross, "Mediaeval Russian Contacts with the West" in Speculum (1935)

• Dmitri Cizevsky, "Yaroslav the Wise in East-Slavic Epic Poetry" in The Journal of American Folklore (1956)

• Samuel H. Cross, "Yaroslav the Wise in Norse Tradition" in Speculum (1929)

• Nelia Kukovalska, "Taiemnytsi Sarkofahu Yaroslava Mudroho" in Istorychna Pravda (2013)

• Brett Forrest, "Yaroslav the Wise's Contested Legacy, A Visual Timeline" in The Wall Street Journal (2022)

• Christian Raffensperger, Reimagining Europe (2012)

• M. Hrushevsky, Istoria Ukrainy-Rusy, Vol. II (1905)