About the book: 1983 / The book covers the processes of decomposition and crisis of the feudal-serf system, the maturation in the depths of this system of new, capitalist relations, the fall of serfdom, the formation of the Ukrainian bourgeois nation , the formation of the industrial proletariat in Ukraine. Liberation movements, the creation of social democratic circles, and the beginning of the revolutionary activities of V. I. Lenin are widely reflected in the volume. Much attention is paid to the development of culture in Ukraine in the 19th century..