A complete issue · 200 pages · 1918
Munsey's Magazine, October 1918
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1918 — all 200 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 200 pages · 1918
This October 1918 Munsey's Magazine issue features "The Ukraine, a New Nation" by Frederic Austin Ogg, a political science professor examining Ukraine's emergence as an independent state following the Russian Revolution. Ogg surveys Ukrainian history from Kiev's tenth-century prominence as a Slavic Christian center through centuries of partition between Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. He details systematic Russian suppression of Ukrainian language and culture—including an 1876 publication ban and the 1863 Ministry declaration that Ukrainian "must not exist." The article contrasts Russian Ukrainians' harsh conditions with the comparatively better legal status of Ruthenians in Austria-Hungary, though both faced exploitation. Ogg discusses the nineteenth-century Ukrainian national revival movement inspired by poet-painter Taras Shevchenko, whose verses expressed yearnings for independence. The piece includes ethnographic photographs from the U.S. National Museum depicting Ukrainian peasants, architecture, and traditional costumes.
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