Judicial Puzzles, Gathered From The State Trials (1876) (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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Belarus, Ukraine and Russia trace their roots to Kyivan Rus', a powerful state that was centered on the city of Kyiv, in contemporary Ukraine, that ruled over large territories now inhabited by Belorusians, Ukrainians, Russians and Poles. Under Volodymyr / Vladimir the Great, Kyivan Rus adopted Christianity in 988, and its rulers intermarried with western monarchs, however, in 1240 Batu Khan sacked its capital. Central and western Ukrainian lands, and Belorusian territories eventually came under the control of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Muscovy, and other territories that later became known as Russia (from 1721) became vassals of the Mongols, eventually throwing off that yoke, and expanding into the Russian Empire that by the 19th and early 20th centuries was clashing with other empires (French, German, British, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman) along its vast peripheries. Owing to previous lack of reform, World War 1 placed such pressure on the Russian Empire that it collapsed in the Russian Revolution, resulted in a number of new countries declaring independence, unleashing a number of wars of independence against White Russian and Russian Bolshevik forces. The Blosheviks defeated both the Whites and the Ukrainian National Republic by 1920, and in 1922 formed the Soviet Union, which was characterised by the brutal dictatorship of Stalin, which in 1933 resulted in millions of deaths in Ukraine due to starvation (the Holodomor), and in 1937, a million of victims during the Great Purge. In 1939 the Soviet-Nazi Pact began World War 2, through the joint Soviet-Nazi invasions, and dismemberment of Poland. In 1941 however, Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, and captured all the territories now covered by the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine, as well as parts of European Russia. The Soviet Union, with massive material assistance from the West (e.g. delivery of 30,000 military aircraft) made a material contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany, although at the cost of millions of military and civilian deaths. The Soviet Union eventually collapsed in 1991 due to economic and social failure, the Baltic States, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and a number of other states achieving their independence.

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