Life in turbulent Ukraine between 1900 and 1950 in color enhanced colorized

This film gives a glimpse into what life was like in Ukraine in the first half of the 20th century, to be precise between 1917 and 1954. By no means does it provide a profound historic analysis of how the state of Ukraine came into existence, especially considering that it is impossible to capture this in just a few sentences. What can be summarized is that the emergence of Ukraine was the direct result of the Russian revolution in 1917 which lead to the formation of the Peoples Republic of Ukraine followed by a four year struggle for indepence that ended with the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In 1921 the East of Ukraine fell into the hands of the Russian Red Army and in 1922 Ukraine became the Ukraïnean Socialistic Sovjet Republic. The Soviet Union stretched from the Baltic sea in the West to the Sea of Japan in the East and from the Arctic Ocean in the North to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea in the South, covering an area about 4 times the size of the United States. Many peopl