Relations between the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s: diplomatic and administrative-institutional aspects

Vladylena Sokyrska; Iryna Krupenya; Kateryna Didenko

doi:10.18778/1644-857X.20.02.04

Authors

Vladylena Sokyrska Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9983-3234
Iryna Krupenya Kyiv International University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3336-974X
Kateryna Didenko Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8406-173X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1644-857X.20.02.04

Keywords:

RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Union SSR, Russian-Ukrainian relations, centralized politics, soviet power, permanent representation

Abstract

The article discusses the specifity of the relations between the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR in 1919–1929. The authors present the relations between the goverments of the two republics and actions of the Russian side aiming to transforme into the unitary state, initially rather loosely connected among them the constituent elements of the Soviet state. Relations between RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR were burdened with significant disavantages from the very beginning, as the former appropriates the rights of the union center. The article explains also the role and the place of the permanent representations of the union republics in Moscow, as well as the influence of the commissioners (Ukrainian government representatives in Moscow) on Soviet Russia’s policy towards Ukraine. Permenent ignoring by the government in Moscow of Ukraine’s needs and expectations, prompted the leadership of the party and the government of Ukrainian SSR to seek protection of its economic interests at the institutional level. With the creation of the USSR, the legal status of the republics included in that state changed. Relations between the republics lost their interstate character. In place of the existing ones, new representations were established to ensure the maintenance of permanent ties between the government of the RSFSR and the governments of the union republics.

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Author Biographies

Vladylena Sokyrska, Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko

Prof. Vladylena Sokyrska – Professor of the Department of World History, International Relations and Methods of Teaching Historical Disciplines of Sumy State Pedagogical University, Ukraine. Doctor of Historical Sciences (2018), Professor (2021). Author of 140 publications, two monographs, 12 textbooks. Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal “Consensus”, a member of the editorial board of scientific journals: “Przegląd Nauk Historycznych”, “Scientific Papers of Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsyiubynskyi State Pedagogical University. Series: History”. Member of the National Union of Local Historians of Ukraine.

Research interests: history of international relations, socio-political and economic processes of the twentieth century, Russian-Ukrainian relations of the 1920s– 1930s, scientific biography.

Iryna Krupenya, Kyiv International University

Assoc. prof. Iryna Krupenya – Associate professor with the International Relations Department of Kyiv International University, Ukraine. Candidate of Political Science (2017). Author of 40 publications, two monographs, two textbooks.

Research interests: international relations, regional processes and security issues in Southeast Asia, Russian-Ukrainian relations.

Kateryna Didenko, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University

PhD Kateryna Didenko – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Lecturer of the Department of World History and Teaching Methods at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, Ukraine. The Author of 48 publications. Member of All-Ukrainian Union of Regional Ethnographers.

Research interests: socio-economic and political history of Ukraine during the period of 1920–1930s, scientific intelligentsia, USSR scientists, the activity of All- -Ukrainian Committee of Scientists’ Assistance, Central Commission on Improving the Welfare of Scientists.

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