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15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Filovie's Ukraine

Mikola Skripnik was a fairly orthodox Bolshevik in most respects, but who took the Ukrainian question more seriously. Filovie's big thing for which he later got in trouble was that it shouldn't have a colonial relationship to Russia literature. The idea was if we make our version of Ukraine, that will bring people into the system and they will be loyal. But this play for time had to come to an end as the Bolsheviks saw it with the collectivization of agriculture.

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