Topics
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Weeks
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Lectures
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Seminars
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1
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2
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Entangled or colonised? How to write a history of Ukraine?
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What is a nation? Modern nations and their history
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2
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3
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Stories of origin: the Kyivan Rus
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Language, religion, and geography
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3
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4
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The ‘Mongol yoke’ and the rise of Muscovy
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Autocracy and ‘Third Rome’
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4
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5
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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The Union of Lublin and the ascendancy of Polish culture
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5
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7
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The fight for the ‘land of the Rus’
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The Cossack Hetmanate and the ‘Kyivan Renaissance’
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6
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8
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Becoming an empire: Russia’s long 18thCentury
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From the Great Northern War to the Congress of Vienna
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7
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9
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Russia’s mission and Ukraine
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Thinking about Russia: From the Enlightenment to Panslavism
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8
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10
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Poland’s struggle and Ukraine
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Thinking about Poland: From Sarmatism to Warsaw positivism
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9
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11
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Ukraine’s self-discovery
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Thinking about Ukraine: From Kotliarevsky to Hrushevsky
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10
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12
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Peasants into …: How the national message was spread
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National literature, music, and art
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11
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13
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National boundaries and hybrid identities
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The ‘Jewish question’ and other questions
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12
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14
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The Great War: Hopes, aims, and expectations
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Playing the national card: the self-destruction of empires
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13
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15
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The Russian, Polish and Ukrainian Revolution
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From the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to the Treaty of Riga
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14
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17
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Nation building Soviet style
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Affirmative action and genocide
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15
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18
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Poland and her minorities
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Polish and Ukrainian nationalism
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16
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19
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Bloodlands I: Soviet rule
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Sovietisation: terror and transformation
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17
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20
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Bloodlands II: German rule
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German order: genocides and miscalculations
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18
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21
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From Soviet to independent Ukraine
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Resistance, Russification, and disentanglement
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19
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22
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Trials, tribulations, and choices: Ukraine and her neighbours after the fall of the Soviet Union
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The shadows of the past: the use and misuse of history
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20
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23
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The Russian war against Ukraine
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Current situation and perspectives
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