3 September 2022
Syllabus below
Ascherson, Black Sea
Plokhii, Gates of Europe
Snyder, Reconstruction of Nations
Snyder, Red Prince
Snyder, Bloodlands
Snyder, Road to Unfreedom
Pomerantsev, Nothing is True
Rudnyts'kyi, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History
Shore, Ukrainian Night
A few other readings can be found on Canvas.
September 1 (Thursday), Ukrainian Questions Answered by Russian Invasion (1)
Yekelchyk, Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation, chapter 1.
September 6 (Tuesday), The Genesis of Nations (2)
Rudnyts'kyi, "The Role of Ukraine in Modern History"
September 8 (Thursday), Map Quiz
September 13 (Tuesday), Geography and Deep History
Rudnyts'kyi, "Ukraine between East and West"
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapter 1.
September 15 (Thursday), Before There was Europe
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapter 2.
September 20 (Tuesday), The Kyiv State: Vikings, Slaves, and Law
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapters 3-6.
September 22 (Thursday), The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapter 7.
September 27 (Tuesday), The Rise of Muscovite Power (Paul Bushkovitch)
Robert Crummey, The Formation of Muscovy 1304-1613, London: Longman, 1987, 1-29, 84-115, 143-178.
September 29 (Thursday), The Jews of Ukraine
Dan Shapira, "The First Jews of Ukraine," in Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony Polonsky, eds., Polin, vol. 26, 2014, 65-78.
Judith Kalik, "Jews, Orthodox, and Uniates in the Ruthenian Lands," in Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony Polonsky, eds., Polin, vol. 26, 2014, 131-146.
October 4 (Tuesday), Polish Power and Cossack Rebellion
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
October 6 (Thursday), The Global Age of Empire
October 11 (Tuesday), Russia: Empire and Peoples
Rudnyts'kyi, "Intellectual Origins of Modern Ukraine"
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapters 13, 14, 16, 17.
October 13 (Thursday), First Exam
October 18 (Tuesday), Habsburg Curiosity
Rudnyts'ky, "Ukrainians in Galicia under Habsburg Rule"
Amelia Glaser, "Between Nation and Class: Nataliya Kobrynska's Jewish Characters," in in Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony Polonsky, eds., Polin, vol. 26, 2014, 183-195.
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapter 15.
John-Paul Himka, Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century, Edmonton: CIUS, 1988, 1-36.
Snyder, Red Prince, entire.
October 25 (Tuesday), Marxisms and Revolutions
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapters 18, 19
Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, chapters 18, 19.
Rudnyts'kyi, "The Ukrainian National Movement on the Eve of the First World War"
Rudnyts'kyi, "The Fourth Universal and its Ideological Antecedents"
October 27 (Thursday), Poland's Ukrainian Question
Rudnyts'kyi, "Polish-Ukrainian Relations: The Burden of History"
Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War, entire
November 1 (Tuesday), Ukrainization to Famine: The Soviet 1930s
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapters 20, 21.
Matthew D. Pauly, Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and State Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, conclusion.
November 3 (Thursday), Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing: the 1940s
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapters 22, 23
Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory, chapters 1-4.
November 8 (Tuesday), Cold War and Neostalinism: The Khrushchev and Brezhnev Years
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapter 24.
Yekelchyk, Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation, chapter 9.
Rudnyts'kyi, "The Political Thought of Soviet Ukrainian Dissidents"
Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory, chapters 5-7 and epilogue.
Ivan Dzyuba, "On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Murders in Baby Yar" (and accompanying materials), in Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony Polonsky, eds., Polin, vol. 26, 2014, 381-389.
Nov 10 (Thursday), Before and After the End of History
Nov 15 (Tuesday), Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine
Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapter 26.
Serhy Yekelchyk, The Conflict in Ukraine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, chapter 4.
Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, New York: Public Affairs, 2014, Act 1: Reality Show Russia, 1-77.
November 17 (Thursday), Maidan and Self-Understanding (Marci Shore)
Shore, Ukrainian Night, entire.
Pomerantsev, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, 208-238.
November 29 (Tuesday), Comparative Russian Imperialism (Arne Westad)
December 1 (Thursday), Ukrainian Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Snyder, "The War in Ukraine has Unleashed a New Word," New York Times, 22 April 2022.
December 6. (Tuesday) The Colonial, The Post-Colonial, and the Global
Snyder, "The War in Ukraine is a Colonial War" New Yorker, 28 April 2022.
Snyder, "Integration and Disintegration: Europe, Ukraine, and the World."