Untitled Document The Making of Modern Ukraine Timothy Snyder Yale University [email protected] Fall Semester, 2005 Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:30-5:00, Luce Hall 245 Question: What brought about the Ukrainian nation? Topics: The decadence of Polish rule in Ukraine; Russian and Austrian imperial rule; Jewish and Polish urban society; Romanticism and modern nationalism; the Bolshevik Revolution and its Ukrainian counterparts; Soviet modernization and terror; Nazi occupation, the Holocaust, ethnic cleansing; the end of the Soviet Union; problems of post-Soviet rule, the Orange Revolution and prospects for democracy.. Chronology: The middle ages to the present, with introductory lectures on the early periods, but concentration upon the nineteenth and especially the twentieth century. Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30-12:30, plus section, Wed. evening (Brian Rohlik). Grading: You will be evaluated on the basis of two in-class examinations (25% each), a final examination (30%), and participation in section (20%). Attendance of lectures is a requirement of the course as well as a prerequisite for effective participation in section. Timely reading is also necessary for adequate participation in discussion. Reading: Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A History, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. Ivan L. Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1987. Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Books for purchase at Labyrinth. Additional articles in packet from York Copy. Lectures: Lecture 1: The Orange Revolution, 2004-2005 (Thursday September 1) Lecture 2: Who was Ivan Rudnytsky? (1)(Tuesday September 6) Ivan L. Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1987, 37-48. Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 1-5. Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996, 12-24. Lecture 3: Who was Ivan Rudnytsky? (2 ) Thursday September 8) ModUkraine.html[26.06.17, 16:36:13] Untitled Document Lecture 4: Slavic Europe (Tuesday September 13) Lecture 5: Rus, Lithuania, Mongols, and Crusaders (Thursday September 15) Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 36-126. Lecture 6: A Polish Union (Tuesday September 20) Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations, 105-114. Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 127-194. Lecture 7: A Jewish Order (Thursday September 22) Lecture 8: A Cossack Rebellion, 1648 (Tuesday September 27) Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 198-237. Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 77-89. Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations, 114-117. Thursday September 29: First Examination (1000-1667) Lecture 9: The Cossacks in Russia (Tuesday October 4) Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 238-304. Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations, 117-119. Lecture 10: The Partitions of Poland (Thursday October 6) Lecture 11: Ukrainians in Russia (Tuesday October 11) Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 306-364. Lecture 12: The Springtime of Other Nations, 1848 (Thursday October 13) Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 406-416. Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 123-141, 255-267. 315-353. Lecture 13: Modern National Politics in Galicia (Tuesday October 18) Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 417-456. Snyder, Reconstruction of Nations, 119-139. Ezra Mendelsohn, “Jewish Assimilation in L’viv: The Case of Wilhelm Feldman,” in Andrei Markovits and Frank Sysyn, eds, Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism, Cambridge: Ukrainian Research Institute, 1982, 94-110. In packet. Lecture 14: Revolutions and Pogroms (Thursday October 20) Snyder, Reconstruction of Nations, 133-144. ModUkraine.html[26.06.17, 16:36:13] Untitled Document Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999, 109-140. In packet. Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 299-314. Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 461-520. Lecture 15: Women, Empire, and Nation (Tuesday October 25) Thursday October 27: Second Examination (1667-1918) Lecture 16: Soviet “Ukrainization” and Ukrainian Culture (Thursday November 4) Snyder, Reconstruction of Nations, 144-153. Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 522-553. Lecture 17: The Soviet-Polish Secret War (Tuesday November 2) Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 583-608. Lecture 18: Famine and Terror, the 1930s (Tuesday November 8) Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 553-582. Lecture 19: Nazi Occupation and the Holocaust (Thursday November 10) Karel C. Berkhoff, Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, 1-111. In packet. Lecture 20: The Cleansing of the Borderlands (Tuesday November 15) Snyder, Reconstruction of Nations, 154-217. Lecture 21: The Thaw, Dissidence, and Neostalinism (Thursday November 17) Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, 153-161. In packet. Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 77-89, 315-353, 477-489. Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 638-665. Lecture 22: The End of the Soviet Union (Tuesday November 29) Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations, 217-293. Magocsi, History of Ukraine, 666-675. Roman Szporluk, “The Making of Modern Ukraine: The Western Dimension,” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 25, Nos. 1-2, 2001, 57-91. In packet. Review session: To be scheduled. ModUkraine.html[26.06.17, 16:36:13] Untitled Document Thursday, December 1: Third Exam (1918-present) ModUkraine.html[26.06.17, 16:36:13].