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The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Class 1 is an introduction to the course and an exploration of questions raised by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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."
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Class 2 The Genesis of Nations

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Class 3: Geography and Ancient History

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Class 4: Before Europe

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Class 5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State

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Class 6: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

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Class 7. Rise of Muscovite Power

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Class 8. Early Jews of Modern Ukraine

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Class 9. Polish Power and Cossack Revolution

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Class 10. Global Empires

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Class 11 Ottoman Retreat, Russian Power,Ukrainian Populism

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Class 12 traces the Habsburg family and their impact on Europe

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Class 13 details the converging forces and end of empires.

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Class 14. Interwar Poland’s Ukrainians

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Class 15. Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s - 1930s

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Class 16. Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing

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Class 17. Reforms, Recentralization, Dissidence: 1950s-1970s

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Class 18. Before and After the End of History

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Class 19. Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine

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Class 20. Maidan and Self-Understanding

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Class 21. Comparative Russian Imperialism

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Class 22. Ukrainian Ideas in the 21st Century

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Class 23. the Colonial, the Post-Colonial, the Global

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