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M. Shylnyk's memoirs and reflections recreate the fateful events of the 1917-1921 revolution, the time of the liberation struggle, heroic attempts to liberate Ukraine from the Russian imperial yoke, and restore Ukrainian statehood. The book is full of interesting factual material, often unique, captured only in the author's memory. He, a government official in the Ukrainian ministries of the time, presents his vision of the revolutionary events, analyses them, and tries to find the reasons for the defeat of the liberation struggle. In his opinion, one of them is the discrediting of the Ukrainian idea by P. Skoropadsky, who, under the banner of the Ukrainian State, was preparing to restore the "united and indivisible" Russia.

The book is addressed to scholars, teachers, students, and anyone interested in the history of Ukraine.