Ця книга – спроба висвітлити політичні, соціально-економічні й культурні процеси в Україні в хронологічному порядку від стародавніх часів до сучасності. Посібник висуває на перший план головні віхи історії українського народу та ключові події його розвитку. Посібник призначений для студентів вищих навчальних закладів та всіх, хто цікавиться історією України.

           This book is an attempt to highlight socio-political, socio-economic and cultural processes in Ukraine in chronological order from ancient times till the present. The textbook aims at highlighting the main landmarks in the history of the Ukrainian nation as well as crucial events in its evolution. This textbook is aimed at the students of higher educational  stablishments

as well as everybody who is interested in the history of Ukraine.

                               CONTENTS

Foreword................................................................... 5

Ukraine at the beginning of the 3rd millennium......................... 7

The early history of the Slavs..............................................12

The political fragmentation of Rus.

The Principality of Halych-Volhynia.....................................17

Ukrainian lands in the 14th – mid-16th centuries.......................21

Ukrainian lands in the second half of the 16th century.

The Union of Lublin........................................................25

The rise of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

Cossack – peasant uprisings of the 1620s – 1630s.....................27

The liberation movement in Ukraine in the 16th –

the first half of the 17th centuries.........................................30

Ukrainian culture in the 16th – the first half of the 17th centuries....36

The national liberation war of the Ukrainian people..................39

The rise of Ukrainian statehood in the liberation struggle...........44

"The Ruin”. Ukraine in the second half of the 17th century..........48

Ukraine in the period of Ivan Mazepa’s Hetmanate....................56

The liquidation of Ukrainian autonomy by czarism....................61

The liberation struggle in Ukraine

(the second half of the 18th century).....................................65

The transition of the Nothern Black Sea region and

Right-Bank Ukraine to the Russian Empire.............................68

Ukranian culture in the second half of the 17th-18th c.................70

Socio-economic development of Ukraine

in the first half of 19th c.....................................................73

Decembrists’ movement in Ukraine.....................................75

The national – liberation movement (the first half of 19th c.)........78

Western Ukrainian lands in the first half of 19th c......................81

Ukrainian culture in the first half of 19th c..............................84

The reforms of the 1860s..................................................88

4 History of Ukraine

Ukraine in the second half of 19th c.......................................91

The Ukrainian national liberation movement in 1860-90s...........94

Ukrainian culture in the second half of 19th c...........................98

The socio-political and national movement in Ukraine in the early 20th c.......................................................... 103

Social, political and economic development of Ukraine on the eve of World War I................................................ 106

Ukrainian culture at the beginning of the 20th c...................... 109

Ukraine during World War I............................................. 114

Struggle for power in Ukraine (1917-1918).......................... 117

National liberation movement in Western Ukraine.................. 130

The Ukrainian ssr at the time of the New Economic Policy...... 132

Cultural development in Ukraine in the 1920s....................... 134

Industrialization of Ukraine in the 1930s.............................. 137

Collectivization of agriculture in Ukraine............................. 139

Ukrainian culture in 1930s............................................... 142

The aggravation of totalitarian regime in Ukraine in the 1930s... 145

Western Ukraine in 1930-40s........................................... 147

Ukraine in the years of World War II (1939-1945).................. 149

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

in the second half of the 1940s – early 1950s......................... 155

An attempt at implementing a new policy

(the mid-1950s – the first half of the 1960s)......................... 159

Ukraine under conditions of the system deepening crisis in the ussr (1970s-1990s)...................................................... 162

Building an independent Ukrainian state (1991 - 2010)............ 168

Ukraine under conditions of development of independence (2010-2018)...................................................... 171

Chronology of key events........................................ 184