Project Details
Ukraine’s State-building Turnabout: The Making of National Minorities in Revolutionary Time (1917-1921)
Applicant
Privatdozent Dr. Gennadii Korolov, Ph.D.
Subject Area
Modern and Contemporary History
Economic and Social History
Economic and Social History
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 531732453
The project examines the history of revolutionary Ukraine from 1917 to 1923 by synthesizing diverse political and cultural experiences of the non-Ukrainian population residing in Ukraine. In previous historiography on the revolution in Ukraine, which has focused on the state-building efforts of Ukrainian national elites, the lives, and activities of non-Ukrainians have been almost marginalized. However, at that time Ukraine was a multicultural space where linguistically and confessionally heterogeneous people lived alongside one another. The analysis of the making of national minorities, and the political and cultural agency of non-Ukrainians at that time from a transnational perspective is at the core of this project. Research questions include the analysis of in-group transformations among non-Ukrainians, non-Ukrainians' interactions with nation-state authorities, and non-Ukrainians' external relations with kins. The study focuses primarily on Poles, Jews, and Russians, the most historically relevant nationalities, but also examines Germans, Greeks, Belarussians, and Moldovans, etc.
DFG Programme
WBP Position