in the campaign “World War I and the Occupation of Galicia (1914–1917)”
The purge of Ukrainian institutions and the persecution of the movement's leaders. Hrushevsky was "arrested by the gendarmerie in Kyiv on December 11, 1914, and accused of Austrophilia and involvement in creating the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. He was sent into exile to Simbirsk"[1], then transferred to Kazan with a teaching ban and stripped of his professorship.