Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers
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The early 20th century was a fateful time in Ukraine’s history. Attempts to establish an independent Ukrainian state were fraught with revolution, civil war, and foreign invasions—events now referred to as the Ukrainian War of Independence or the Soviet-Ukrainian War.
This war resulted in the establishment of two countries by 1922: the Second Polish Republic, which occupied most of western Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which occupied the rest of Ukraine.
In the following years, rapid Soviet collectivization of agriculture in the Ukrainian SSR triggered the Holodomor: a famine that started in 1932 and killed millions of Ukrainians.
The Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers (SEUN) collection traces the history of Ukraine during this tumultuous era—covering these and events leading up to WWII. Comprising five titles and over 50,000 pages, SEUN includes newspapers from three cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv.
This collection includes newspapers in both Ukrainian and Russian.
The Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions. The collection is available for free to all CRL members institutions. Non-CRL institutions that wish to purchase the Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers collection should contact us for more information.
