The use of electronic devices is not permitted in lectures, sections, or examinations. It is your responsibility to bring the books and your notes to section. Please do the assigned readings before lecture and be prepared to discuss them in section. (5) A five-page memo on a theme from Ukrainian history (20%) (4) Two fifty-minute examinations (25% each) (2) Regular attendance and participation in section (20%)
The last few topics are thus: the late Soviet Union problems of post-Soviet rule, the Orange Revolution and Maidan and the war of 2014 and the present war. Finally, contemporary Ukrainian history poses in striking form the question of the functionality and durability of the post-imperial state. Modern topics therefore include Russian and Austrian empires Jewish and Polish urban society Romanticism and modern nationalism the Bolshevik Revolution and its Ukrainian counterparts Soviet modernization and terror Nazi occupation and the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing. Ukraine also provides an intense example of the confrontation between modern national politics and extreme colonial alternatives from the far right and far left. Topics there include the Kyiv state, early modern Lithuania, and Poland during the age of discovery. We will begin with brief reflections on ancient history and geography, and cover the middle ages and the early modern period, but will concentrate upon the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, and will conclude with the current war. Ukraine provides an early example of European state formation and an early example of anti-colonial rebellion. Ukraine tends to exemplify the major trends in European and world history, but sometimes in a form so radical that they escape notice and classification. Often the most important historical factors are the ones that are most difficult to see. 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? Just how for that matter does any modern nation emerge? And why some nations and not others? What is the balance between structure and agency in history? Can nations be chosen, and does it matter? Can the choices of individuals influence the rise of much larger social organizations? If so, 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? What brought about the Ukrainian nation? 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.
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