This map, produced after the first World War, makes a powerful argument in contemporary debates over Ukrainian statehood. Rudnytsky was a geographer and professor with deep roots in the Ukrainian national movement. He received much of his education in Vienna, where the base map from which he created this map was produced. The fact that the most easily available maps of this territory even decades later were produced by this company (and by Soviet cartographers outside Moscow) highlights a strange feature of Ukraine's existence as a state and as a territory--the fact of it being constantly described from a distance.
