![]() 1. Ukrainian Cossack, Summer 1990 |
![]() 2. Demonstration outside KGB headquarters in L'viv, Summer 1990 |
![]() 3. Young men and women take an oath of allegiance to an independent Ukraine, Summer 1990, Kryvyi Rih |
![]() 4. Pre-election rally in Kyiv, February 1990 |
![]() 5. Ukrainians wearing the uniforms of the 1917-20 'Sich Sharpshooters' in Kyiv, January 1990 |
![]() 6. Mass demonstration by 100 000 people in Kyiv on 30 September 1990 against the signing of Gorbachev's Union Treaty |
![]() 7. Members of the 'People's Council' lead demonstration in Kyiv, Autumn 1990 |
![]() 8. Celebration of the 500th anniversary of the 'Days of Cossack Glory' in Dnipropetrovs'k (Sicheslav), Autumn 1990 |
![]() 9. Levko Lukianenko addresses a rally in the forest of Bykivnia near Kyiv, where, according to 'Memorial', up to 240 000 Ukrainian victims of the NKVD lay buried, May 1989 |
![]() 10. Ivan Drach addresses rally in support of Lithuania's declaration of independence, Kyiv, March 1990 |
![]() 11a. Searching for a lost relative, 7 May 1989 |
![]() 11b. Human bones uncovered at the Bykivnia site, April 1989 |
![]() 12. Radical MP, Stepan Khmara, speaking at the Supreme Council of Ukraine before his arrest in November 1990 |
![]() 13. Viacheslav Chornovil. Ex-dissident, (former) chairman of L'viv oblast council and leading challenger to Leonid Kravchuk in the December 1991 presidential elections |
![]() 14. Levko Lukianenko, leader of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union-Ukrainian Republican Party, 1988 |
![]() 15. Leading ex-political prisoners, now all deputies, on the day of the Ukrainian Declaration of Sovereignty, 16 July 1990 |
![]() 16. The catacomb Ukrainian Catholic Church holds a service in the woods, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Christmas 1989 |
![]() 17. Patriarch Mstyslav, (formerly) leader of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church |
![]() 18. The Second Rukh Congress, October 1990, Kyiv |
![]() 19. Opposition figures carry the coffins of leading Ukrainian dissidents from the Brezhnev era - Oleksa Tykhyi, Vasyl Stus and Valerii Marchenko - who died in the Gulag, for reburial in Kyiv (November 1990) |
![]() 20. Ukrainian Catholic hunger strikers in Moscow, August 1989 |
![]() 21. 250 000 crowd demanding the legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, L'viv, September 1989 |
![]() 22. Demonstration being broken up by riot police outside the Ukrainian parliament, Kyiv, October 1990 |
![]() 23. Student hunger strike, 'Independence Square', Kyiv, October 1990 |
![]() ![]() 24. The first dismantling in the USSR of the statue of V. I. Lenin in L'viv, September 1990 |
![]() 25. Ukrainian miner protests against ecological damage to Ukraine, Kyiv, October 1990 |
![]() 26. May 1990: Dnipropetrovs'k Afghan veterans beat up Rukh activists whilst militia look on |
![]() 27. Kyiv, Summer 1991. Poster reads 'Kravchuk, do not fool around with the Ukrainian people. Luhans'k demands freedom for Ukraine!' |