State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine: A Comparative Study of Governments and Bureaucrats, 1917-1922 - Hardcover

Velychenko, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442641320 ISBN 13: 9781442641327

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2011

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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.

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Stephen Velychenko is a historian and research fellow at the Chair for Ukrainian Studies of the University of Toronto.


Stephen Velychenko is a research fellow at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies and a CERES associate in the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto. From 2004 to 2009 he was a visiting lecturer at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1442641320
• ISBN 13: 9781442641327
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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