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The book by the famous publicist Ivan Ilyenko, who passed away prematurely, uses numerous documents, testimonies, and memoirs to tell the story of the most tragic pages of Ukraine's history from the Pereyaslav Rada of 1654 to 1917 in a vivid artistic form. The book will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the history of Ukraine, will be useful for students, will help them learn more about the oppression suffered by the Ukrainian people under the yoke of tsarist Russia, and will help them better understand the complex processes of our time.