The Story of The Ukraine

This book aims at undoing the Russian view that Ukraine was a sort of subsidiary appendage of Mother Russia. The fact that Ukraine was invaded and partitioned by her neighbors Russia and Poland, and that her nationhood was consequently submerged for several hundred years, does not somehow cancel the equally undoubted fact that Ukraine was not an appendage of Russia but on the contrary the core of greater Rus′: in effect the parent and mentor of Russia in that country’s formative stages. That Russian imperialism, first under Peter the Great then under Catherine the Great, succeeded in colonizing many independent peoples on Russia’s borders, each with their own proud identity and history (often older than that of Russia) and that Russian state propaganda has continued to downplay the identities of those colonized peoples, does not make the Russian thesis true.

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