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His chapter headings highlight the key “categories used in professional intelligence.” See below.
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History of Ukraine
This video presents the brief history of Ukraine, the second-largest European country after Russia.
This video presents the brief history of Ukraine, the second-largest European country after Russia.
Chapter
00:00 Introduction
00:32 The Kievan Rus’
02:07 The Cossacks
03:23 Ukraine under the Soviet Union
05:18 Modern-day Ukraine
With a unique geography, Ukraine is a crucial pawn in the strategic and economic games of the European larger powers, namely Russia and the West.
The dawn of Ukraine’s history dates back to more than a thousand years ago when Ukraine did not even exist, at least not as an independent sovereign state.
The Rus’ are claimed to be the cultural ancestors of Ukraine and also Belarus and Russia. From the 10th to 11th centuries, Kievan Rus’ became the largest and most powerful state in Europe.
During the 14th and 15th centuries, the Kievan Rus’ state was divided and ruled by the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Cossacks, the most important piece of Ukraine’s identity, became particularly strong in the 17th century.
Following the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, most of modern-day Central Ukraine was incorporated into the Russian Empire while the western part was split between Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria.
In the wake of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR) was proclaimed but only existed til 1920.
In late 1922, following the Russian Civil War, four Soviet republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Transcaucasia formed the Soviet Union (or USSR) via a treaty.
In 1939, as part of a Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union invaded and annexed the eastern regions of Poland, expanding the Ukrainian SSR’s territory to the west.
In 1954, the Crimea Peninsula’s government was transferred from the Soviet Union to the Ukraine SSR, expanding the territory to the south.
In 1991, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine regained independence.
In 2014, following the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, war broke out between Russia and Ukraine.
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.
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A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It)
In this animated video, historian Matt Lewis tells the story of Ukraine’s turbulent and often surprising history. Beginning over a thousand years ago with the formation of the Kyivan Rus state, Matt tracks the development of Ukraine during the Mongol invasions, its incorporation into the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth, and eventually it’s allegiance with the tsars of a newly formed Russia.
The ongoing crisis in relations between Russia and Ukraine is threatening to engulf eastern Europe in a war on a scale not seen since 1945. The eyes of the world are focussed on the military activity as politicians scramble to encourage a diplomatic solution that will deescalate the conflict.
Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of Soviet Russia. It remains politically, militarily, and economically important to Russia today. Precisely why there is a dispute over the sovereignty or otherwise of Ukraine is a complex question rooted in the region’s history. It is a story more than a thousand years in the making. For much of this story, Ukraine did not
exist, at least not as an independent, sovereign state, so the name Ukraine will be used to help identify the region around Kyiv that was so central to the story. The Crimea is an important part of the story too and its history forms a part of the history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine.
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