About the book: 2022 / In recent years, many works on its history have been published in Ukraine, some of which even claim to be used as textbooks and textbooks for schoolchildren or students. Educational programs are built on the basis of these works, and the younger generation has been learning from them all this time. At the same time, a number of provisions of these textbooks and teaching aids are not only controversial, but also deliberately distort historical events, which are quite rich in the lands that only in Soviet times received the status of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and after 1991 - an independent Ukrainian state. For objectivity presentation of the material at the beginning of each section of the book, the theses of the vision of this historical period by leading Ukrainian historians of the 90s - early 2000s are given, and then the author's material is offered, developed on the basis of archival sources, official historical research and scientific articles of leading historians of the 19th - beginning of the 21st century. Intended for a wide range of readers.