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Editorial Reviews - Histories of Cities in Ukraine From the Publisher Chapters: History of Kiev, History of Lviv, Babi Yar, Sknyliv Airshow Disaster, Kiev Offensive, Orange Revolution, Georgiy Gongadze, Lwów Pogrom, Boleslaw I's Intervention in the Kievan Succession Crisis, 1018, Hotel Ukrayina, Semper Fidelis, General Secretariat of Ukraine, Massacre of Lviv Professors, Battle of Lwów, Lemberg Ghetto, Tsentralna Rada, Battle of Kiev, List of Leopolitans, J. A. Baczewski, Battle of Galicia, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukraine Without Kuchma, Kiev Pogroms, Lwów Voivodeship, Kiev Arsenal January Uprising, Kyiv Bilshovyk Uprising, Subdivisions of Kiev, Lwów Uprising, Shuliavka Republic, List of Victims of the Babi Yar Massacre, 1811 Great Fire of Podil, Lwów Oath, Kyi, Schek and Khoryv, Lviv High Castle, Church of the Tithes, Evgeny Paton, Battle of Blue Waters, Siege of Kiev, Volodymyr Bahaziy, Trukhaniv Island, Scottish Café, Lysa Hora, Lwów Eaglets, Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Lwów School of Mathematics, Ukrainian Club Building, Coat of Arms of Kiev, Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic, Kiev Psalter of 1397, 1961 Kurenivka Mudslide in Kiev, Zamkova Hora, Sports Ground, Kiev, Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period, Baczewski Family, Polubotkivtsi Uprising, Lemberg Land, Kiev City Duma Building. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: 1919 1920 The 1920 Kiev Offensive (or Kiev Operation), sometimes considered to have started the Soviet-Polish War, was an attempt by the newly re-emerged Poland, led by Józef Pisudski, to seize central and eastern Ukraine, torn in the warring among various factions, both domestic and foreign, from Soviet control. The stated goal of the operation was to create a formally independent Ukraine, although much of the Ukrainian population were ambivalent as many viewed the Polish advance as a new occupatio...http://booksllc.net/?l=en Synopsis Chapte