Revisiting question of the place of the Ukrainian State in the geopolitical plans of Austria-Hungary and the German Empire in 1918

Authors

  • Nikolai V. Hlibischuk Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, 2 Kotsubynskoho Street, Chernivtsi 58012, Ukraine

Keywords:

Ukrainian State, hetman Pavel Skoropadsky, invasion, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Quadruple Alliance, «Mitteleuropa»

Abstract

In the article the author tried to analyze the place of Hetman Ukraine in the foreign policy projects of the Danube monarchy and Kaiser Germany. The author attempted to demonstrate the different interests of the Viennese and Berlin governments in the Ukrainian question. The Austro-Hungarian governance viewed Pavel Skoropadsky’s regime solely as a source of food. The German elite viewed Ukraine as the basis for the formation of its military-political and economic hegemony in continental Europe.

Author Biography

  • Nikolai V. Hlibischuk, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, 2 Kotsubynskoho Street, Chernivtsi 58012, Ukraine

    PhD (history); assistant at the department of modern and contemporary history, faculty of history, political science and international relations

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Published

2018-07-30

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No. 3 (2018): Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

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World War I: national movements and the fall of impires

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Hlibischuk, N.V. 2018. Revisiting question of the place of the Ukrainian State in the geopolitical plans of Austria-Hungary and the German Empire in 1918. Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 3 (Jul. 2018), 42–48.