Abstract
Today’s Russo-Ukrainian border is a product of territorialization processes in the early years of the Soviet state. Documents of relevant commissions in the Russian and Ukrainian State Archives (GARF and TsDAVOU) clearly indicate that its creation was not a means to divide and rule the population, but rather a strategy of managing the diversity of the Soviet space. Whereas the party leadership provided the rough framework on a macro level, the republican and local cadres would shape the processes on a meso level. Once confronted with these top-down decisions, activists in the border regions entered the debate on a micro level. They began to link basic economic needs with national-ethnographic self-perception. In the case that they gained support of a ‘patron’ on the Ukrainian or the Russian side, they had the chance to change the border. In the end, the borders established in the time period between 1919 and 1928 were the product of a complex interaction among all three of these levels.
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