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religion. The dominant idea of theirs was a
chauvinistic theory of “autocracy, Orthodoxy
and people unity”. Thus, they fought against
Ukrainian movement.
1909-1910 The attack of Russian autocracy at
Ukrainian cultural and educational
movement. It was banned to teach in
Ukrainian in those schools, where it had been
introduced during revolution. Public
Ukrainian institutions like “Prosvita” (there
were 45 of them by the middle of 1907) were
closed. It was forbidden to sell Ukrainian
books (even the “Gospels” in Ukrainian),
conduct concerts and evenings in Ukrainian,
raised funds for the monument on T.
Shevchenko’s grave in Kaniv. In January
1910 the Minister of Internal Affairs of
Russia P. Stolypin declared Ukrainians and
other oppressed people to be ‘non-Russians”
in his circular to the governors. He also
banned them to establish societies, clubs,
publish newspapers in their native language.
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November, 15 The activity of the 4 State Duma. The
1912 – positions of the liberal part of Duma
February, 25 strengthened, its opposition to the authorities
1917 rose. They supported cultural demands of
Ukrainians, particularly during debates in
summer, 1913 regarding the Ukrainian
language. Cadets (Milyukov, Shynhareyev),
Kerensky, Dzyubynsky issued statements
against oppression of the Ukrainian language.
1914 The government of Russia banned the
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celebration of T. Shevchenko’s 100

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