Opposition by national minorities PG Flashcards
Ukriane
March 17th 1917 Ukrainian rada fromed, is protest
: The Third Universal proclaimed Ukraine’s independence from Russia, just after the Bolshevik Revolution. The Ukrainian People’s Republic was declared on November 7, 1917.
Batlics declares autonomy
June 15th-23rd 1917
8 April 1917, nearly 40,000 Estonians, including up to 15,000 soldiers, marched in Petrograd
Finland declare independence
Dec 6th 1917
Poland
November 11, 1918 - claim independence
Polish Corps in Russia grew to about 20,000 men,
Jews
April 1917: The First Congress of the Jewish Socialist Workers’ Party (Poale Zion) called for full equality for Jews and supported the idea of national self-determination within the Russian state.
500,000 Jews living in the Russian Empire at the time, and while not all were involved in politics, hundreds of thousands supported movements