Youth work in Ukraine: from Soviet model to international integration

Abstract

Youth work first appeared in Ukraine in the mid to late 19th century. Ukraine, whose history dates back to Kyivan Rus (since the 9th century), was subsequently deprived of its statehood and youth work changed accordingly. The short existence of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic after the First World War was replaced by the emergence of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the USSR until the 1990s. Modern Ukraine proclaimed its independence on 24 August 1991.