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Ukraine and Poland, 1569-1999 History 684 Tuesdays, 1:30

Timothy Snyder Yale University [email protected] Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12

The western question in and the eastern question in Poland, from the incorporation of Ukraine by Poland in 1569 to the emergence of independent states in the late twentieth century. Religious differences (and compromises), imperial oppositions (and accords), military conflict (and alliances), national rivalries (and borrowing).

Weekly presentations of the reading. Weeks 10 and 11: additional documentary research, short written papers. Week 12: on problems of national history. Week 13 textual critique of work in progress. Week 14: own essays.

Events

1569 Union of Lublin 1596 Union of Brest 1648 Khmelnyts'kyi Uprising 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo 1795 Third Partition of Poland 1918 Polish-West Ukrainian War 1920 Pilsudski-Petliura Alliance 1928 Volhynian Experiment 1943 Mutual Ethnic Cleansing begins 1973 Mieroszewski in Kultura 1989 Polish sovereignty 1991 Ukrainian independence 1992 Polish-Ukrainian Treaty 1999 Polish membership in NATO

A. Introduction

Week Two

Timothy Snyder, Reconstruction of Nations, Parts 1 and 2 Peter J. Potychnyj, ed., Poland and Ukraine, Part 1

B. Early Modern Politics

Week Three: Incorporation

Daniel Stone, The Polish-Lithuanian State, pp. 36-127 (read first) Antoine Martel, La langue polonaise dans les pais ruthenes Oskar Halecki, Przylaczenie Podlasia, Wo‡ynia, i Kijowszczyzny

Week Four: Nobles

Natalia Iakovenko, Narys istorii ukrainy, chapters 4-5 (Polish edition: Historia Ukrainy) (read first) Natalia Iakovenko, Paralel'nyi svit, pp. 7-144 Henryk Litwin, Naplyw szlachty polskiej na Ukraine, entire Frank Sysyn, Between Poland and the Ukraine

C. Early Modern Religion

Week Five: Brest Union

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Oskar Halecki, Florence to Brest, entire, but judiciously , Crisis and Reform, entire

Week Six: Churchmen

David Frick, Meletij Smotryc'kyi, entire Ihor SevËenko, Byzantium and the Slavs, pp. 651-688.

D. Empires

Week Seven: Russia (Instititions)

Zenon Kohut, Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy, entire Ted Weeks, Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia, 70-130

Week Eight: Russia (Poles and )

Daniel Beauvois, Le noble, le serf, et le revisor (Polish: Polacy na Ukrainie, 1831-1863) Daniel Beauvois, La bataille de la terre en Ukraine, 1863-1914 (Polish: Walka o ziemiÍ)

Week Nine: Austria

Iaroslav Hrytsak, Istoriia Ukrainy (Polish edition: Historia Ukrainy) (read first) Andrei Markovits and Frank Sysyn, eds., Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism, chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9 John-Paul Himka, Socialism in Galicia (entire)

E. Communism, 1917-1941

Week Ten: The Soviet Union

Richard Pipes, Formation of the Soviet Union, 1-74, 114-154, 242-297 Terry Martin, Affirmative Action Empire, 31-124, 211-343

Presentations: Documentary critique.

Week Eleven: Poland

George Jackson, Comintern and Peasant in Eastern Europe, 57-158, 181-214, 298-320 Janusz Radziejowski, The Communist Party of West Ukraine, (Polish edition: Komunistyczna Partia Zachodniej Ukrainy), entire Jan Gross, Revolution from Abroad (read last)

Presentations: Documentary critique

F. Second World War, 1941-1945

Week Twelve:

Ryszard Torzecki, Polacy i Ukraincy Ihor Iliushyn, OUN-UPA Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany

Presentations: National history?

G. Workshop

Week Thirteen:

Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War Tomasz Stryjek, Ukrainska idea narodowa okresu miÍdzywojennego, entire

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Presentations: Critique of essay

H. Conclusions

Week Fourteen:

Snyder, Reconstruction, part three

Presentations: Essays

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