Peasant revolts in Ukraine following the 1917 Revolution
Date and time:
Friday 31 March, 2017
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
While the revolutions of 1917 are usually seen in the Russian context, it was also a year of the Ukrainian revolution. The Ukrainian national movement gathered around the Ukrainian Central Rada, proclaiming the Ukrainian People’s Republic in late 1917. The republic seemed to enjoy the support of the vast majority of Ukrainian peasants. But in times of need, when it was attacked by the Bolsheviks, the peasants denied their support to it. Instead, waves of local uprisings broke out throughout the Civil War against any power that tried to intervene in the inner life of the villages and extract grain by force. In the hinterland of the insurgencies, villagers conducted their own revolution, reforming their societies as they saw fit. Thus, a different kind of Ukrainian revolution took place in the villages.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Dimitri Tolkatsch
Dimitri Tolkatsch is a PhD Candidate at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (Germany). His research project on the Ukrainian uprising movement during the Russian Civil War is intended to offer a narrative of the revolutionary and civil war events of 1917-1921 from the point of view of the vast majority of the Ukrainian population – the peasants. After having discussed his findings at several conferences he is glad to present them to a wider public. His research was funded by a short-term scholarship of the German Historical Institute in Moscow and the PhD-scholarship of the Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich-Studienwerk Fund.
