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Lectures and Seminars

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Weeks

Lectures

Seminars

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Entangled or colonised? How to write a history of Ukraine?

What is a nation? Modern nations and their history

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Stories of origin: the Kyivan Rus

Language, religion, and geography

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The ‘Mongol yoke’ and the rise of Muscovy

Autocracy and ‘Third Rome’

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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Union of Lublin and the ascendancy of Polish culture

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The fight for the ‘land of the Rus’

The Cossack Hetmanate and the ‘Kyivan Renaissance’

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Becoming an empire: Russia’s long 18thCentury

From the Great Northern War to the Congress of Vienna

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Russia’s mission and Ukraine

Thinking about Russia: From the Enlightenment to Panslavism

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Poland’s struggle and Ukraine

Thinking about Poland: From Sarmatism to Warsaw positivism

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Ukraine’s self-discovery

Thinking about Ukraine: From Kotliarevsky to Hrushevsky

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Peasants into …: How the national message was spread

National literature, music, and art

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National boundaries and hybrid identities

The ‘Jewish question’ and other questions

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The Great War: Hopes, aims, and expectations

Playing the national card: the self-destruction of empires

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The Russian, Polish and Ukrainian Revolution

From the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to the Treaty of Riga

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Nation building Soviet style

Affirmative action and genocide

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Poland and her minorities

Polish and Ukrainian nationalism

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Bloodlands I: Soviet rule

Sovietisation: terror and transformation

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Bloodlands II: German rule

German order: genocides and miscalculations

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From Soviet to independent Ukraine

Resistance, Russification, and disentanglement

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Trials, tribulations, and choices: Ukraine and her neighbours after the fall of the Soviet Union

The shadows of the past: the use and misuse of history

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The Russian war against Ukraine

Current situation and perspectives