About the book: 2016 / Rostislav Ishchenko’s book is dedicated to the study of the century-long struggle between the Galician and Russian concepts of the development of Ukraine, which resulted in three civil wars: 1914–1920 gg., 1941–1956, as well as which began in February 2013 and continues to this day. An authoritative expert on the history of the conflict between Galicia and Novorossiya analyzes the similarity of the external and internal political preconditions for the prosperity of Ukrainian Nazism, the role of the West in this process and reveals its true goal - the weakening of Russia and the Russian world in general. The first part of the book is devoted to the tragedy of Thalerhof of 1914–1917, the events Ukrainian-Rusyn confrontation in Austrian Galicia in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries and the birth of Galician Nazism. The second part examines the current situation: the development of the ideology of Galician Nazism and its spread to new territories at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st century, which led to an armed coup in Kyiv and the civil war in Donbass.