The Great war 1914–1918 as a global upheaval and of its consequences for Ukraine

In the article, the World War First it examined from the perspective of a global cataclysm that essentially determined the further development of human civilization not only in the twentieth, but in also the early twenty-first century. It indicated that the tragedy of war especially manifested in the total character, which it has become, and the rapid fall in the value of human life. In its universal scope and demographic losses, this war greatly surpassed everything that happened thereto during the largest international military conflicts in human history. It showed the influence of the global confrontation 1914– 1918 on the Ukrainian ethnic lands, which were divided between the Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary. They have been the object of geopolitical encroachments of the warring parties and for four years become the theater of fierce fighting, and their population found itself on opposite sides of the front line. Considerable attention it paid to elucidating the main «Ukrainian aspects» of the war in the political, ideological, military, economic and social planes. It shown both negative and positive consequences of the World War First for the formation of modern nation and the establishment of statehood.