Was Ukraine a colony of the Russian Empire?

What did life look like for Ukrainians at that time? How did being ruled by empires affect the country’s economic development? Why was Ukraine the “breadbasket of Europe” and how did it succeed? What influenced the development of world exports and how did the Ukrainian industrial revolution take place? Was Ukraine really a colony and a product of Russian industrialization?

In this video-conference in Ukrainian, posted online on June 20 by the ‘localna historia’ channel, Ivan Savchuk, an expert in economic geography, talks about the economic and social life of Ukraine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and shows the importance of economic geography in Ukraine’s past economic development.

Ivan Savchuk has been a researcher at EHESS and the UMR Géographie-cités since 2022. He was a researcher at Ukrainian National Defense University in Kiev. du Ivan Savchuk His research focuses on the economic and social geography of Ukraine and Europe.