A short guide to the linguicide of the Ukrainian language | Infographics (updated)
From the 17th to the 20th century, Ukrainian lands were split between empires and states. Their rulers tried…
The linguistic suppression of the Ukrainian language spans several centuries and various empires and states that ruled over Ukrainian lands. Starting in the 17th century, Muscovy condemned Kyrylo Trankvilion-Stavrovetskyi's Didactic Gospel, and in 1697, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth required tribunal and court decisions to be written in Polish, displacing Ruthenian.
Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Russian, Austrian, and Austrian-Hungarian regimes banned Ukrainian publications, imposed Russification policies, and dissolved cultural institutions. Notable examples include the 1769 ban on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra printing primers in the local language and the 1864 statute mandating Russian as the teaching language in Ukrainian schools.
These restrictions continued into the 20th century, with the Russian Empire banning Ukrainian publishing and Ukrainian children's books in 1895, and Pyotr Stolypin's interior ministry refusing registration to non-Russian national societies, including Ukrainian ones, in 1910.
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