with Barry Cunliffe.
In 1917 Josef Stalin , then Commissar of Nationalities, argued that if the Ukraine attempted to break away from the Union it would lead to "fratricidal bloodshed of the peoples". Recently,
Mikhail Gorbachev expressed similar fears.
Harold Shukman tells John Miller about the tragic past of the newly independent state. And Christopher Cook recalls Horatio Bottomley - MP, newspaper tycoon and wheeler-dealer.