In the spring of 1917, as the Russian Empire collapses under the weight of war and revolution, Ukraine dares to dream of freedom. From the hopeful marches through Kyiv’s sunlit streets to the bitter struggle against Bolshevik armies, this is the story of how Ukraine first tried to forge its own destiny.

But revolution brings chaos. Armies rise and fall, cities burn, and hunger stalks the land. The Rada’s dream of democracy gives way to dictatorship and civil war, as Lenin, Trotsky, and a young Stalin descend on Ukraine to reclaim the empire’s breadbasket at any cost. What began as a national awakening will end in terror, famine, and the iron grip of Soviet rule.

Join Joseph Parkinson as he traces the birth of the modern Ukrainian nation—and the origins of the tragedy that would become the Holodomor.

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