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Excerpt from Ukraina Only a year ago Russia was the greatest empire in the world. To-day the papers are constantly reporting the formation of new states, which are springing up from the ruin of this once World-Empire: now - the Duchy of Kurland, with the German Kaiser as its elected ruler, now - the bourgeoise Republic of Finland, now - the social-revolutionary Republic of Ukraine, the bolchevistic Russia, the Caucasian, the Tartar and the Siberian Republics. It is swarming with states, representing every form of government from the monarchial to the ridiculous Bolchevik-Republic. All the nationalities, not only those which have existed for centuries and possess a history of their own, but also those of whose very existence the world was in ignorance up to yesterday, are putting forward their claims of independence and self government. A common trait in the conduct of all these nations is that they are not so much actuated by a desire to further their own interests as to injure, or even destroy, that which up to the year 1916 was known as the great Russian Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.