In the final first of World war the Russian empire was coming to its end. It had been by revolution and finally transformed into the first communist country in the world. In the year following the revolution non Russian that lived under the house of Romanov sought to secure their long lost independence. One of there was Ukraine. From 1917 until 1921 the Ukrainians struggled to build and secure an independent country fighting against the new regime against their neighbors in the west and amongst themselves.