MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORK AND THOUGHT
OF ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
by Teodoro Tagliaferri (University of Naples Federico II)
No. 10
(April 9, 2022)
WRITINGS ON THE EMPIRES IN WORLD HISTORY, VII
Arnold Joseph Toynbee, The Ukraine – A Problem in Nationality, in A.J. Toynbee, The New
Europe. Some Essays in Reconstruction, London, Dent, 1915, VII, pp. 75-85. Separately
published as British View of the Ukrainian Question, New York City, Ukrainian Federation of
U.S.A., 1916, 13 pages.
THE UKRAINE – A PROBLEM IN NATIONALITY
By Arnold J. Toynbee
Many neglected nationalities have won recognition through the war, but the case of the
Ukrainians is surely the strangest of all. A nation of thirty millions, and we had never heard
its name! To be told that Ukrainians are the same as Ruthenes hardly enlightens our
ignorance. Only the equation with “Little Russians” appears to explain their obscurity. Then
they are not really a nation after all, but a variety of Russian, speaking, doubtless, a dialect
of the Russian language?
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