Aggressors may impose terms that radically curtail the political rights and independence of a local government. Through a categorical ban on conducting an independent foreign policy, depriving an Indigenous people of the right to freely elect their leaders, and direct interference in domestic legislation, the aggressor methodically transforms a self-governing entity into a fully controlled, rightless province.
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| S0009 | Diplomacy |
Taking advantage of the political crisis and having surrounded the autonomy's leaders with its troops, the Tsardom coerced them into signing a new, utterly enslaving treaty. This document radically curtailed the Cossacks' rights and abolished their independence: "The Articles meant the rupture of the Hadiach Agreement of 1658... and substantially narrowed the autonomy of Cossack Ukraine within the Muscovite state"[1]. |
| S0009 | Diplomacy |
The systematic dismantling of the autonomy's democratic institutions. Moscow categorically forbade the Cossacks to elect their leaders independently and to conduct an independent foreign policy: "and without a petition and without a decree of the great sovereigns... a hetman shall not be elected... nor shall they, on their own... write anything to anyone"[2]. The abolition of the historical right to grant asylum: the autonomy was forced to perform the functions of the Muscovite punitive apparatus and to hand over fugitives: "and those fugitives and people of all ranks shall not be received, nor kept among them"[2]. |
| S0009 | Diplomacy |
A categorical prohibition on the hetman conducting independent diplomacy or any relations with foreign states, aimed at completely isolating the region in the international arena[3]. |
| S0009 | Diplomacy |
Interference in internal governance: the hetman was officially stripped of the right to punish Cossack starshyna or remove them from office without the approval and judgment of the Muscovite monarch[4]. |
| S0009 | Diplomacy |
Imposition of the "Lubny Treaty" on the Zaporozhian Sich, legally codifying the transfer of the Cossacks "under the rule of Russia" with an obligation of military service to the empire[5]. |
| S0009 | Diplomacy |
Transfer of control over the military affairs, finances, communications, and transport routes of the Ukrainian republic into the hands of the central bodies of the RSFSR[6]. |
| S0008 | Government |
The liquidation of the autonomy through the administrative reform of 1707: the transfer of Ukrainian affairs to the Razriadnyi Prikaz with the aim "to convert the Cossacks into a regular army... to break the rights and liberties of the Host"[2][7][8]. |
| S0008 | Government |
A categorical ban on the hetman conducting foreign policy or receiving foreign envoys[9][2]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Complete diplomatic isolation of the autonomy. The decree categorically "prohibited the hetman from conducting diplomatic relations with foreign states"[10]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Stripping the Ukrainian SSR of control over foreign policy, the army, foreign trade, transport, and communications through the 1924 Constitution of the USSR, transferring them to the jurisdiction of the all-union people's commissariats[6]. |
| C0075 | Institutional Absorption through a "Military-Political Union" (1919–1921) |
Transfer of control over the military affairs, finances, communications, and transport routes of the Ukrainian republic into the hands of the central bodies of the RSFSR[6]. |
| C0011 | Integration Reforms of Peter I and the Great Northern War (1700–1708) |
The liquidation of the autonomy through the administrative reform of 1707: the transfer of Ukrainian affairs to the Razriadnyi Prikaz with the aim "to convert the Cossacks into a regular army... to break the rights and liberties of the Host"[2][7][8]. |
| C0007 | Kolomak Articles (1687) |
The systematic dismantling of the autonomy's democratic institutions. Moscow categorically forbade the Cossacks to elect their leaders independently and to conduct an independent foreign policy: "and without a petition and without a decree of the great sovereigns... a hetman shall not be elected... nor shall they, on their own... write anything to anyone"[2]. The abolition of the historical right to grant asylum: the autonomy was forced to perform the functions of the Muscovite punitive apparatus and to hand over fugitives: "and those fugitives and people of all ranks shall not be received, nor kept among them"[2]. |
| C0076 | Legal Absorption through the Creation of the USSR (1922–1924) |
Stripping the Ukrainian SSR of control over foreign policy, the army, foreign trade, transport, and communications through the 1924 Constitution of the USSR, transferring them to the jurisdiction of the all-union people's commissariats[6]. |
| C0004 | Pereiaslav Articles (1659) |
Taking advantage of the political crisis and having surrounded the autonomy's leaders with its troops, the Tsardom coerced them into signing a new, utterly enslaving treaty. This document radically curtailed the Cossacks' rights and abolished their independence: "The Articles meant the rupture of the Hadiach Agreement of 1658... and substantially narrowed the autonomy of Cossack Ukraine within the Muscovite state"[1]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
Complete diplomatic isolation of the autonomy. The decree categorically "prohibited the hetman from conducting diplomatic relations with foreign states"[10]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
Imposition of the "Lubny Treaty" on the Zaporozhian Sich, legally codifying the transfer of the Cossacks "under the rule of Russia" with an obligation of military service to the empire[5]. |
| G0013 | Soviet Russia (RSFSR) |
Transfer of control over the military affairs, finances, communications, and transport routes of the Ukrainian republic into the hands of the central bodies of the RSFSR[6]. |
| C0028 | The Decisive Points (1728) |
Complete diplomatic isolation of the autonomy. The decree categorically "prohibited the hetman from conducting diplomatic relations with foreign states"[10]. |
| C0029 | The Governing Council of the Hetman Government and the Lubny Treaty (1734–1750) |
Imposition of the "Lubny Treaty" on the Zaporozhian Sich, legally codifying the transfer of the Cossacks "under the rule of Russia" with an obligation of military service to the empire[5]. |
| C0025 | The Konotop Articles of Ivan Samoilovych (1672) |
Interference in internal governance: the hetman was officially stripped of the right to punish Cossack starshyna or remove them from office without the approval and judgment of the Muscovite monarch[4]. |
| C0024 | The Moscow Articles of Ivan Briukhovetsky (1665) |
A categorical prohibition on the hetman conducting independent diplomacy or any relations with foreign states, aimed at completely isolating the region in the international arena[3]. |
| C0016 | The Reshetylivka Articles (1709) |
A categorical ban on the hetman conducting foreign policy or receiving foreign envoys[9][2]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
Taking advantage of the political crisis and having surrounded the autonomy's leaders with its troops, the Tsardom coerced them into signing a new, utterly enslaving treaty. This document radically curtailed the Cossacks' rights and abolished their independence: "The Articles meant the rupture of the Hadiach Agreement of 1658... and substantially narrowed the autonomy of Cossack Ukraine within the Muscovite state"[1]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The systematic dismantling of the autonomy's democratic institutions. Moscow categorically forbade the Cossacks to elect their leaders independently and to conduct an independent foreign policy: "and without a petition and without a decree of the great sovereigns... a hetman shall not be elected... nor shall they, on their own... write anything to anyone"[2]. The abolition of the historical right to grant asylum: the autonomy was forced to perform the functions of the Muscovite punitive apparatus and to hand over fugitives: "and those fugitives and people of all ranks shall not be received, nor kept among them"[2]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The liquidation of the autonomy through the administrative reform of 1707: the transfer of Ukrainian affairs to the Razriadnyi Prikaz with the aim "to convert the Cossacks into a regular army... to break the rights and liberties of the Host"[2][7][8]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
A categorical ban on the hetman conducting foreign policy or receiving foreign envoys[9][2]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
A categorical prohibition on the hetman conducting independent diplomacy or any relations with foreign states, aimed at completely isolating the region in the international arena[3]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
Interference in internal governance: the hetman was officially stripped of the right to punish Cossack starshyna or remove them from office without the approval and judgment of the Muscovite monarch[4]. |
| G0010 | USSR |
Stripping the Ukrainian SSR of control over foreign policy, the army, foreign trade, transport, and communications through the 1924 Constitution of the USSR, transferring them to the jurisdiction of the all-union people's commissariats[6]. |