Robert William Seton-Watson (1879-1951), also known by the pseudonym Scotus Viator, was a British political activist and historian who played an active role in encouraging the breakup of Austria-Hungary and the emergence of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia during and after the First World War.
The Seton-Watson's short essay The Ukraine Problem, which we offer to our readers today, was published in the weekly review of Foreign Politics The New Europe in 1917 in a decidedly critical and traumatic moment in the history of Russia.
Today, in a historical moment in which, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the question of Ukraine (like other national questions) has returned to forceful relevance, it is more interesting than ever to retrace the reflections and historical research of Robert William Seton-Watson.
