Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Copyright Page / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Acknowledgements / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Transliteration and Dates / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Abbreviations / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Introduction / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 1 State Power and the Development of Capitalism / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 2 The Working Class / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 3 Social Democracy and the National Question / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 4 February to October 1917 / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 5 November 1917: Attempts at Reconciliation / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 6 December: The Failure of Reconciliation / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 7 The First Treaty of Brest Litovsk / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 8 Battles for Kyiv / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 9 Kyiv under Bolshevik Rule / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 10 The Pogroms in March and April 1918 / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 11 Resistance to the Austro-German Occupation / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Chapter 12 Last Days of the Rada / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Epilogue / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Back Matter -- References / Author: Marko Bojcun -- Index / Author: Marko Bojcun.

Bojcun explores the social democratic workers' movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire and its impact on the course of the 1917 Revolution. The focus here is on the Ukrainian, Jewish and Russian parties, the sections of the labour movement they built, the national inequality and oppression that they confronted and the political solutions they pursued. This study traces the workers' movement from its inception through to the First World War, the outbreak of revolution in 1917, formation of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the country's descent in 1918 into civil war and foreign interventions.

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