Ukrainian ideology in the Crimea from late 1917 to early 1919

Butovskiy Aleksandr Yurievich

The article is devoted to the complex issue of Ukrainian ideology in the Crimea from late 1917 to early 1919. Based on a thorough analysis of sources, the author offers to consider the history of the development of Ukrainian agitation and propaganda in this difficult period of the country's history. According to the researcher, the basis of "Ukrainianism" was the direct hope of the population that the "Ukrainianized" regiments, divisions and corps formed at the front and in the rear would be able to maintain relative order in the South of Russia, keep the country from sliding towards revolutionary anarchy and lawlessness. However, these aspirations were in vain. The Ukrainian regiments and battalions created in the Taurida Governorate directly sided with the Bolsheviks. As for the main mistakes of Ukrainian propaganda on the territory of the Peninsula, they consisted in its rather strong nationalist demagogic slogans that alienated the multi-ethnic population of Crimea.

Keywords:Civil war, propaganda, agitation, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Crimea, Black Sea Fleet.