Ukrainian History

[just-jim]

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Yes…..and another Snyder book - ‘Black Earth’ - about the Holocaust….which includes discussion on Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

Additionally ….beyond European history - his books ‘On Tyranny’, ‘The Road to Unfreedom’ and ‘On Freedom’ are very good.
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[mister_coffee]

Also _Bloodlands_ by Timothy Snyder is mandatory reading to give one some context on how Russians and Ukrainians view each other.

[just-jim]

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Some may remember the History classes that Bill Hottell used to host, each winter - yearly - for many years.(Some years, those classes were followed up with travel to the areas).

I came late to these classes, but they were very good. I think Bill’s last class was 2022-23 and was on the history of Ukraine, since the Russian invasion had just happened. Bills class discussed - by necessity - the context of all of Eastern Europe and Russia.

About this same time, I became aware of Timothy Snyder, Historian of Eastern Europe at Yale.
Snyder did a series of free lectures on the history of Ukraine. 25 lectures - about 45 minutes each. Excellent!

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh ... Eg8OESGiSM

He has transcripts of those same lectures at: https://snyder.substack.com/p/making-of ... ne-lecture
And a course syllabus: https://snyder.substack.com/p/syllabus- ... ture-class
Unfortunately, you have to be a paid subscriber to his Substack to access those.
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