Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Stephen Velychenko ,
Stephen Velychenko
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.820kg
ISBN: 9781442641327
ISBN 10: 1442641320
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 23 July 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'Velychenko's monograph is a useful contribution to the debate on the revolution and civil war in the Ukraine... The work highlights a set of under-researched actors who helped determine how Ukrainians experienced the revolution and civil war, and whose views and activity both reflected and affected the attempts to build a state.' -- Christopher Gilley Revolutionary Russia, vol 25:02:2012
'Velychenko's monograph is a useful contribution to the debate on the revolution and civil war in the Ukraine... The work highlights a set of under-researched actors who helped determine how Ukrainians experienced the revolution and civil war, and whose views and activity both reflected and affected the attempts to build a state.' -- Christopher Gilley Revolutionary Russia, vol 25:02:2012 'Velychenko?s book will be of great interest to historians of the modern state, Eastern Europe, and what many of us still call misleadingly the ?Russian? Revolution.' -- Serhy Yekelchyk American Historical Review, June 2013
Author Information
Stephen Velychenko is a historian and research fellow at the Chair for Ukrainian Studies of the University of Toronto.
