{"id":2285,"date":"2025-12-30T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:34:40","slug":"starodubtsev-on-the-ukrainian-peoples-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2025\/12\/30\/starodubtsev-on-the-ukrainian-peoples-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Starodubtsev on the Ukrainian People’s Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US leftist journal Against the Current<\/a> has just published Ukrainian historian (and soldier) Vladislav Starodubtsev\u2019s \u201cRetrieving History: Ukrainian People\u2019s Republic<\/a>.\u201d The article presents a synoptic history of Ukraine’s first modern independent (and social-democratic) state. It should be required reading for anyone commenting on Ukraine today, especially from a left-wing perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few excerpts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cUSUALLY THE HISTORY of the 1917 revolution is told from the perspective of Russia. But its most radical and transformative currents emerged from the empire\u2019s colonized peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ukraine was first among equals. It managed to create a majority council based socialist and democratic republic, and provided an example of multi-parties, cooperative-based and decentralized socialism, that was later defeated by Russia. It was the forefront of a revolutionary shift \u2014 offering a bold vision of what politics could be.\u201d [. . .]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n


“The legacy of the Ukrainian People\u2019s Republic remains an example of resistance to Russian imperialism, a state in which authentic \u201csoviet democracy\u201d existed, and where the founding principles of democratic, laboring and cooperative socialism were tried.

“This republic, with its massive decentralization and local self-governance effort and its huge cooperative movement consisting of millions of people, still inspires Ukrainians to think about what a progressive future might look like.

“Sadly, the Soviet Union and, later, the Russian Federation have done everything in their power to control Ukrainian history, enforcing their own narratives, promoting xenophobia, and most importantly, denying and hiding an important, progressive, page of history that demands to be recovered.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The entire article can be read here.<\/a>
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The US leftist journal Against the Current has just published Ukrainian historian (and soldier) Vladislav Starodubtsev\u2019s \u201cRetrieving History: Ukrainian People\u2019s Republic.\u201d The article presents a synoptic history of Ukraine’s first modern independent (and social-democratic) state. It should be required reading for anyone commenting on Ukraine today, especially from a left-wing perspective. A few excerpts: \u201cUSUALLY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdPO21-AR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}