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Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk
Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk , 1934-, Ukrainian leader, president of Ukraine (1991-94), b. Velyky Zhityn, Ukraine. A political economist and long-time Communist party ideologue, he became chairman of Ukraine's Supreme Soviet in 1990. When hard-liners attempted to overthrow Russian president Mikhail ... Read more
Ternopil Ternopil
Tarnopol see Ternopil , Ukraine.... Read more
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma , 1938-, Ukrainian politician, president of Ukraine (1994-2005). Formerly the manager of the Soviet Union's largest missile factory, he was a member of the Ukrainian Communist party's central committee (1981-91). Elected (1991) to Ukraine's supreme soviet, he served... Read more
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky , 1898-1967, Soviet marshal, b. Ukraine. He joined the Communist party in 1926. In World War II Malinovsky commanded an army in the Stalingrad (later Volgograd) offensive and later in Ukraine. He became (1956) a member of the central committee of the Communist party and... Read more
Mukacheve Mukacheve
Mukacheve, Ukraine Munkács Founded as a fortress to guard the Carpathian mountains and named after a certain Mukach with the possessive suffix ‐evo added. Its former Hungarian name reflects its Hungarian possession in 1018–1920; it was ceded to Czechoslovakia in 1920, to the... Read more
Poltava Poltava
Poltava , city (1989 pop. 315,000), capital of Poltava region, E Ukraine, on the Kiev-Kharkiv highway and on the Vorskla River, a tributary of the Dnieper. It is an industrial center and important rail junction in the rich black-earth agricultural region. The city has railroad shops, food- and... Read more
Cossacks Cossacks
Cossacks , Rus. Kazaki, Ukr. Kozaky, peasant-soldiers in Ukraine and in several regions of Russia who, until 1918, held certain privileges in return for rendering military service. The first Cossack companies were formed in the 15th cent., when Ukraine, then part of the unified Polish-Lithuanian... Read more
Ukraine Ukraine
Ukraine , Ukr. Ukraina, republic (2005 est. pop. 47,425,000), 232,046 sq mi (601,000 sq km), E Europe. It borders on Poland in the northwest; on Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova in the southwest; on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south; on Russia in the east and northeast; and on... Read more
Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky
Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky For nine years (1977-86), Anatoly Shcharansky (born 1948) personified the desperate plight of many Soviet Jews. Caught in the vice of great power politics, Shcharansky suffered a prolonged and difficult imprisonment because of his wish to emigrate to Israel and... Read more
Commonwealth of Independent States Commonwealth of Independent States
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), community of independent nations established by a treaty signed at Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 8, 1991, by the heads of state of Russia , Belarus , and Ukraine . Between Dec. 8 and Dec. 21, the three original signatories were joined by Armenia , Azerbaijan... Read more

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Ukraine
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...The nationalist movement was barely suppressed...the Ukraine. Ukraine became one of...large areas of Ukraine. After a unilateral...sovereignty in 1990, Ukraine proclaimed independence in August 1991...1991, the former ...
Belorussia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...failed to defend the independence which it had briefly achieved...eradicate the national movement, to collectivize the peasantry...remained in place against movement to the rest of the USSR...Underground resistance movements were particularly ...

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Hungary
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...north, Romania and Ukraine on the east, Slovenia...Transylvania retained its independence. By 1711 all of...revolution and independence, first under Károlyi...under Béla KUN's communist regime. Dictatorship...domination and a communist ...
Poland
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...which lost its independence in the three Polish...the nationalist movement towards the end...order to secure the independence of the kingdom...the century this independence was more apparent...Belarus) and the Ukraine. It was ...
Romania
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...is bounded by Ukraine and the republic...the repressive communist regime of Nicolae...Congress of BERLIN independence was recognized, and Prince...and Bulgaria. A communist regime was established...greater degree of independence was restored ...

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Ukraine Party Goes From Dissidence to Power; After Successful Push for...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...Canada as Ukraine's first...of Rukh, Ukraine's leading independence movement...tore the movement in two...opposition movements in many other...with former Communists? Citing...the ...
Ukraine Vote Boosts Confidence in Unity; Even Russian Areas Backed Independence
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...independence movement, was least...independence Rukh movement to Kravchuk, a former Communist - not to frighten...live in the Ukraine. The republic...wealthy as the Ukraine must have been...In Kiev's ...
Eurasia letter: will Ukraine return to Russia?
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy ...of the old Communist leadership...hands of the Communist authorities...political movement in Ukraine is Rukh...Ukrainian independence. Following...national independence referendum...national independence, or ...
Nationalist sees a free Ukraine within 5 years
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...an independence movement has been gathering...by Bush to visit Ukraine has a political...descent. But the independence movement makes...to cooperate. Ukraine has cooperated...The Ukrainian independence ...
AFL-CIO PRESIDENT ISSUES STATEMENT ON UKRAINE INDEPENDENCE VOTE
PR Newswire ...recognize Ukraine's independence and to establish...clear record of independence from the now-banned Communist Party. In affirming...their support for independence, Ukraine's citizens have...democratic coalition ...
Split Opposition Falters in Ukraine; Divisions Help Kuchma Retain Power
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...uniting with the communists to oust him...character of Ukraine's political...republics, Ukraine never developed...grass-roots movement for independence that distinguished...the former Communist Party boss who ran ...
Political extremism in Ukraine: PART I
Newspaper article from: The Ukrainian Weekly ...of the Popular movement of Ukraine for...or national, Communists, personified...consensus on which Ukraine's independent...Brown groups in Ukraine, as well as Russian...organization, State Independence for ...
Commitment to independence
Newspaper article from: The Ukrainian Weekly ...for a general movement for Ukrainian...the push for independence in the early...who considered independence to be unequivocal...deciding votes for independence in Ukraine's Parliament...from frightened Communists who wanted ...
Independent, but not yet free: Ukraine.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ...tenacious opposition movement of the sort that...Europe. True, Ukraine started with a...at the root of Ukraine's current plight...both democracy and independence at once, the Ukrainian...compromise with the ex-communists led by Leonid ...
Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers ...developments in Ukraine. The book...namely, that Ukraine's independence was made possible...sociopolitical actors: Ukraine's cultural...called national communists within the Communist Party of Ukraine...the ...

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