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This new edition of Ivan Maistrenko’s Borotbism has been reformatted and slightly re-edited from the original 1954 edition. Which was republished in the original format in 2007. A number of aspects of the original text have been updated such as the transliteration of Kiev which is published here as Kyiv. This edition includes not only a new introduction and foreword but also a biographical essay of Ivan Maistrenko and in supplement a review of Soviet responses to Borotbism. A number of illustrations have been added including rare pictures provided by Ivan’s son Levko Maystrenko and his granddaughter Ulyana. The title of the book has been slightly changed from it original Borotbism a Chapter in the History of Ukrainian Communism to Borotbism a Chapter in the History of the Ukrainian Revolution.

NOTE TO 1954 EDITION

1 Events occuring between February (March) 1917 and February 1 (14), 1918 are dated in both old style and new style.

2 The boundaries of geographical regions referred to in the text in the pre-revolutionary period are not necessarily co-extensive with boundaries established by the Soviet regime.

3 The Ukrainian word “rada” has been rendered English by the word council whenever councils in Ukraine are under discussion, except in the case of the Ukrainian Central Rada; the Russian word “sovet” also meaning council had been rendered in its English form soviet whenever councils in Russia are under discussion, except in the case of the Russian Council of Peoples Commissars. Soviet has also been used in the phrase Soviet platform, whether this applies to Russia or Ukraine.