GLOBL 2 Lecture 4: Week 4 Lecture
Document Summary
Split between four major powers: the russian empire (later soviet union), the polish- By ww1 most of ukraine was part of the russian empire. The ussr collapsed on december 25th 1991. Russia (144 million people) and ukraine (45 million) were the largest of these new countries. Ukrainian-russian relations: the good, the bad, and the genocide(s) These territories and their diverse populations have complex historic ties. Ukraine was the historic breadbasket of the russian empire and later ussr. When the soviet union decided to collectivized agriculture it disproportionately affect. Ukraine, southern belarus and the north caucasus. southern russia region. The idea of collectivization was to destroy the traditional farming village structure and for everyone into collective farms. This made it easier for the government to monitor and control production, but failed dramatically to increase outputs of food -> state store more food, but people were not producing more.
