ABSTRACT

Look for the Ukrainian state on the map of Europe and you will not find it. Yet there is abundant evidence that the Ukraine still exists, six hundred years after the independent Ukrainian dynasty disappeared from Europe, and nearly two centuries after the last autonomous Ukrainian state, allied to the Russian Empire, was annexed by that nation in 1764. Between the Pripet River in the north, and the old frontier of Rumania in the south; between Przemysl and the River San in the west and the River Don in the east, there are living to-day a homogeneous population of some forty millions of Ukrainians.