Lecture 23: Administrative and socioeconomic developments, 1800–1914

Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course.

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023 at the University of Toronto, where he holds the professorial Chair of Ukrainian Studies and is a history and political science professor. He is also a Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

Magocsi, one of the world’s leading experts on Ukraine, explores this fascinating country in all its complexity, from its history, culture, geography, politics, and multi-ethnic composition. The lectures are an important counterweight to Russian propaganda and explain Ukraine’s importance to global security today.

Time stamps are available for each lecture. Auto-translate is available in Ukrainian, major European, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages, including Hebrew and Yiddish.

Recordings of the lecture series were made possible with the support of the Temerty Foundation.

All the lectures are available on YouTube here.

1:30 Partitions of Poland, 177-1795 map
2:06 Ukrainian lands circa 1850
8:10 Tsarist bureaucracy chart
10:49 Liberation of Peasants, painting (1907)
11:39 Tsarist bureaucracy chart
28:12 Khutir (Ukrainian: хутiр)
30:35 Catherine II of Russia
30:59 Edict 1783
45:06 Chumak (Ukrainian: чумак) 1880
45:57 Overland routes and railways in Ukraine before 1914
47:46 A sugar processing plant in the Right Bank town of Cherkasy
48:04 A metallurgical factory under construction (1911) in Iuzivka (present-day Donetsk), the main industrial center of Donbas

For further information, you may wish to consult: A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples (University of Toronto Press, 2010)

Robert Paul Magocsi
Chair of Ukrainian Studies University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada, September 2023.