19: Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine

19: Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine

Class 19 brings additional reminders of the impact Poland had on the formation of the Ukrainian state.

Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages.

Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. What does it mean for a nation to exist? Is this a matter of structures, actions, or both? Why has the existence of Ukraine occasioned such controversy? In what ways are Polish, Russian, and Jewish self-understanding dependent upon experiences in Ukraine? Just how and when did a modern Ukrainian nation emerge? For that matter, how does any modern nation emerge? Why some and not others? Can nations be chosen, and can choices be decisive? If so, whose, and how? Ukraine was the country most touched by Soviet and Nazi terror: what can we learn about those systems, then, from Ukraine? Is the post-colonial, multilingual Ukrainian nation a holdover from the past, or does it hold some promise for the future?

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23: The Colonial, the Post-Colonial, the Global

23: The Colonial, the Post-Colonial, the Global

How does all this tie together? Class 23 brings the effects of the past century of imperialism into sharp focus. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a pe...

9 Dec 202252min

22: Ukrainian Ideas in the 21st Century

22: Ukrainian Ideas in the 21st Century

Class 22 brings us closer to the modern day and looks at the role of culture. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for...

6 Dec 202251min

21: Comparative Russian Imperialism

21: Comparative Russian Imperialism

Class 21 features guest lecturer, Professor Arne Westad, comparing Russian imperialism with other empires in recent centuries. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale Unive...

1 Dec 202248min

20: Maidan and Self-Understanding with guest lecturer Marci Shore

20: Maidan and Self-Understanding with guest lecturer Marci Shore

What can be that breaking point in a person’s life? Class 20 brings us to Maidan and the Self-Understanding that resulted. Guest lecturer is Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History at Yale Univer...

28 Nov 202253min

18: Before and After the End of History

18: Before and After the End of History

Class 18 brings into focus Marxism, dialectics, consumerism and nationalism during the transition from Khrushchev to Brezhnev. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale Univ...

16 Nov 202251min

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

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

The impact of colonization in Europe in the 1950s through the 1970s is examined in Class 17. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at th...

16 Nov 202250min

16: Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing

16: Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing

Why the 1940s was such a terrible time for Ukraine is the subject of Class 16. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute fo...

16 Nov 202248min

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