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The memoirs of Isaac Mazepa (1884-1952), one of the leading public and political figures of the Ukrainian national liberation struggle of 1917-1921, contain a wealth of factual material about the course of events in Ukraine in the 1910s and 1920s. The author presents his direct and frank view of the events and their participants. The first volume describes the general state of Ukrainian society on the eve of the 1917 revolution and the course of revolutionary events from the beginning of the revolution to July 1919.