Aggressors very often alter administrative boundaries within a captured region. In the course of implementing this technique, traditional systems of local governance are forcibly abolished, while the seized lands are fragmented and integrated into the colonizer's standard bureaucratic grid, which irreversibly destroys the historically formed social ties within the society. For example, many borders in Africa are the result of struggles between colonial powers[1]. The borders of the union and autonomous republics of the USSR were established by Moscow for administrative convenience and were changed in accordance with the decisions of the Moscow leadership[2].
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| C0009 | "Eternal Peace" with Poland (1686) |
The legal codification of the country's split into two parts, with the Right Bank turned into a buffer zone: "Under the terms of the Eternal Peace, the Right Bank remained with Poland... it was agreed and resolved that those places are to remain deserted, as they now are"[3][4]. |
| C0031 | Abolition of the Cossack Order in Sloboda Ukraine (1765) |
Liquidation of Cossack administrative units and imposition of the imperial division: "By the Manifesto of 1765, Catherine II abolished the Cossack order... and created the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate"[5]. |
| C0034 | Administrative Dismantling and Enserfment of the Left Bank (1781–1786) |
The final liquidation of the Hetmanate's autonomy, including the abolition of the Cossack regimental system and the partition of the Left Bank into three ordinary imperial viceroyalties (Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Novhorod-Siverskyi)[6]. |
| C0073 | Artificial Separatism and the Dismemberment of Territories (January – March 1918) |
An attempt at the bureaucratic resubordination of territories — declaring the Donbas an autonomous part directly linked to Russia, bypassing any Ukrainian authorities[7]. |
| C0038 | Creation of the Little Russian Governorate-General (1801–1802) |
Erasure of the historical boundaries of the seized territories and their unification through the imposition of an imperial system of control over the Left Bank by establishing the Little Russian Governorate-General[8]. |
| S0008 | Government |
The legal codification of the territory's division. Moscow deliberately fragmented a once unified country, turning such important regions as Zaporizhzhia into rightless buffer zones under joint administration: "...Zaporizhzhia (which under the treaty of 1667 was under the joint rule of Moscow and Warsaw)"[3]. |
| S0008 | Government |
The legal codification of the country's split into two parts, with the Right Bank turned into a buffer zone: "Under the terms of the Eternal Peace, the Right Bank remained with Poland... it was agreed and resolved that those places are to remain deserted, as they now are"[3][4]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Preparation for the liquidation of the Hetmanate through the gubernia reform, into which Cossack towns were artificially inscribed. Moscow planned "to take the Little Russian towns into its own domain"[3][4]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Abolition of the regiment-and-company administrative structure in favor of the imperial partition of lands: "as early as 1699 the Polish Sejm adopted a decision to liquidate the Cossack order on the Right Bank"[9]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Liquidation of Cossack administrative units and imposition of the imperial division: "By the Manifesto of 1765, Catherine II abolished the Cossack order... and created the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate"[5]. |
| S0008 | Government |
The final liquidation of the Hetmanate's autonomy, including the abolition of the Cossack regimental system and the partition of the Left Bank into three ordinary imperial viceroyalties (Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Novhorod-Siverskyi)[6]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Erasure of the historical boundaries of the seized territories and their unification through the imposition of an imperial system of control over the Left Bank by establishing the Little Russian Governorate-General[8]. |
| S0008 | Government |
An attempt at the bureaucratic resubordination of territories — declaring the Donbas an autonomous part directly linked to Russia, bypassing any Ukrainian authorities[7]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Internal redrawing of administrative borders within the USSR: the formal transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in order to "relieve the RSFSR of the economic burden of rebuilding the peninsula" after World War II and the deportation of the Indigenous population[10][11]. |
| C0011 | Integration Reforms of Peter I and the Great Northern War (1700–1708) |
Preparation for the liquidation of the Hetmanate through the gubernia reform, into which Cossack towns were artificially inscribed. Moscow planned "to take the Little Russian towns into its own domain"[3][4]. |
| C0026 | Liquidation of the Cossacks in Right-Bank Ukraine (1699) |
Abolition of the regiment-and-company administrative structure in favor of the imperial partition of lands: "as early as 1699 the Polish Sejm adopted a decision to liquidate the Cossack order on the Right Bank"[9]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
Liquidation of Cossack administrative units and imposition of the imperial division: "By the Manifesto of 1765, Catherine II abolished the Cossack order... and created the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate"[5]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
The final liquidation of the Hetmanate's autonomy, including the abolition of the Cossack regimental system and the partition of the Left Bank into three ordinary imperial viceroyalties (Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Novhorod-Siverskyi)[6]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
Erasure of the historical boundaries of the seized territories and their unification through the imposition of an imperial system of control over the Left Bank by establishing the Little Russian Governorate-General[8]. |
| G0013 | Soviet Russia (RSFSR) |
An attempt at the bureaucratic resubordination of territories — declaring the Donbas an autonomous part directly linked to Russia, bypassing any Ukrainian authorities[7]. |
| C0087 | The Ideological Campaign of the "300th Anniversary of Reunification" and the Transfer of Crimea (1954) |
Internal redrawing of administrative borders within the USSR: the formal transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in order to "relieve the RSFSR of the economic burden of rebuilding the peninsula" after World War II and the deportation of the Indigenous population[10][11]. |
| C0005 | Truce of Andrusovo (1667) |
The legal codification of the territory's division. Moscow deliberately fragmented a once unified country, turning such important regions as Zaporizhzhia into rightless buffer zones under joint administration: "...Zaporizhzhia (which under the treaty of 1667 was under the joint rule of Moscow and Warsaw)"[3]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The legal codification of the territory's division. Moscow deliberately fragmented a once unified country, turning such important regions as Zaporizhzhia into rightless buffer zones under joint administration: "...Zaporizhzhia (which under the treaty of 1667 was under the joint rule of Moscow and Warsaw)"[3]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The legal codification of the country's split into two parts, with the Right Bank turned into a buffer zone: "Under the terms of the Eternal Peace, the Right Bank remained with Poland... it was agreed and resolved that those places are to remain deserted, as they now are"[3][4]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
Preparation for the liquidation of the Hetmanate through the gubernia reform, into which Cossack towns were artificially inscribed. Moscow planned "to take the Little Russian towns into its own domain"[3][4]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
Abolition of the regiment-and-company administrative structure in favor of the imperial partition of lands: "as early as 1699 the Polish Sejm adopted a decision to liquidate the Cossack order on the Right Bank"[9]. |
| G0010 | USSR |
Internal redrawing of administrative borders within the USSR: the formal transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in order to "relieve the RSFSR of the economic burden of rebuilding the peninsula" after World War II and the deportation of the Indigenous population[10][11]. |