The 1917 February Revolution led to the reshaping of the war-era image of the German enemy.
Focusing on the former imperial borderland province of the Southwestern Krai, this article
unveils the national, political, and cultural considerations of the local Ukrainian and Russianlanguage
media that affected their attitude towards the Germans. It argues that the developments
of the 1917–1918 Ukrainian Revolution presented a unique case of constructing the image of the
Germans due to the ongoing rivalry between the respective Ukrainian and Russian national
projects. The study is based on the materials of prominent Kyivan daily newspapers, thus
rendering the spectrum of the region’s political thought. Built upon the concept of imagology,
the article apprehends the images of “otherness” in conjunction with the actor’s own identity.