Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary

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The Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary or the Reunification of Ukraine with Russia Tercentenary[1][2] (Russian: 300-летие воссоединения Украины с Россией, 300-letiye vossoyedineniya Ukrainy s Rossiyei; Ukrainian: 300-річчя возз'єднання України з Росією) was a republic-wide celebration within the Ukrainian SSR, marked in the Soviet Union from February 1954, in celebration of the union between Russia and Ukraine associated with the 1654 "Pereyaslav Council". The political entity that was united with Russia was called Ukraine, not Cossack Hetmanate or Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

In preparation to the event there was created a special Republican commission in commemoration of the Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary headed by the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine Alexei Kirichenko.[3] Also prior to that in 1953 in Moscow was published a three-volume body of documents and materials titled as "Vossoyedinenie Ukrainy s Rossiyei" prepared jointly by the History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and the Ukrainian Directorate of Archives and included 747 documents of the period between 1620 to 1654.[4][5] The materials were prepared as an "agitprop" (propaganda) by a group of Muscovite and Ukrainian historians organized in 1952 and approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[6] The celebration which never celebrated before nor thereafter in January of 1954 stretched for a month.[7]

In 1954 both Dnipropetrovsk State University and Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute were named after the Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary. Also several cities were renamed including Proskuriv as Khmelnytskyi and Pereyaslav as Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi. In Moscow and Kyiv (Kiev) were held full-scale parades.[8]

It was a period when television broadcasting in the Soviet Union was just being started, therefore most of the agitation was being broadcast on radio.[7] The idea for the celebration existed since the latest partition of Poland in 1939 (Invasion of Poland) to justify the last.[9]

The Russian selfless aspirations to reunite Ukraine is one of the main subjects in the Soviet historiography. According to the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, in the 18th century there were no partitions of Poland, but rather reunification of Ukrainian lands (Right-bank Ukraine).[10]

Gallery[]

  • Soviet stamp of 2 rubles (1954)

  • Soviet stamp of 1 ruble (1954)

  • Soviet stamp of 4 kopecks (1979)

  • The 1954 badge with flags of the Russian SFSR and the Ukrainian SSR

  • The 1954 envelope with additional Soviet stamps

  • Monument in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi "Forever together – forever with the Russian People"

  • Commemorating placard on monument of Lev Tolstoy

References[]

  1. ^ Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter
  2. ^ Serhii Plokhy. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine.
  3. ^ Ідеологія 300-річчя "возз'єднання". buklib.net
  4. ^ Vermenych, Ya. ВОССОЕДИНЕНИЕ УКРАИНЫ С РОССИЕЙ. resource.history.org.ua. 2003
  5. ^ Stalin's Empire of Memory.
  6. ^ 12 січня 1954 (вівторок). history.org.ua
  7. ^ a b Fesunenko, A. Переяславська угода «возз'єднання» України з Москвою не передбачала. wz.lviv.ua. 12 June 2018
  8. ^ Photo:Red Square,parade,tercentenary,union,Ukraine,Russia,'54 5749. www.ebay.co.uk.
  9. ^ Shama, O. Инструкции к дружбе. Как 65 лет назад в СССР решили отпраздновать «воссоединение Украины с Россией». nv.ua. 9 June 2019
  10. ^ Hryhoriy Serhiyenko. Union of the Right-bank Ukraine with Russia (ВОЗЗ'ЄДНАННЯ ПРАВОБЕРЕЖНОЇ УКРАЇНИ З РОСІЄЮ). Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia.

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