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14: Interwar Poland’s Ukrainians

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ukrainian Cossack State

There are five or six million people who speak Ukrainian inside Poland. That's two or three percentage points more than there are African Americans in the United States. The collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was central part of the advance of the Russian Empire into Europe. When Ukrainians try to found states in 1918, they take the form of republics.

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