Lecture 28: The national movement and the Revolution of 1848

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.

1:35 Saint Barabara Church and building in Vienna
4:45 Klemens von Metternich
7:02 Denys Zubrytskyi, History of the Old Galician Rus' Principality, 3 vols. (1852–55)
7:22 Jozef Lozinski, Grammatyka języka ruskiego (malo-ruskiego) (1846)
8:00 Markian Shashkevych, The Cyrillic and Roman Alphabets: Notes on the Proposal to use the Polish Roman alphabet in Ruthenian publications (1836)
9:22 Markiian Shashkevych, Ivan Vahylevych, Yakiv Holovatskyi, Rusalka Dnistrovaia
23:18 Kossuth Lajos
23:32 5 July 1848: The opening ceremony of the first parliament, which was based on popular representation. The members of the first responsible government are on the balcony.
24:20 Currency note
25:32 Franz Joseph I of Austria, Franz Joseph's coronation as Apostolic King of Hungary, 1848
29:22 Surrender of the Hungarian National Army at Világos (Transylvania), 13 August 1849
31:00 Franz von Stadion
35:02 Supreme Ruthenian Council, the first page of the protocols of the "Main Russian Rada" in Lvov, 1848
36:52 Reichstag in Vienna (1848)
38:36 Opening of the first Slavic Congress in Prague, Austrian Bohemia, 2–12 June 1848
39:18 First Issue of Zoria halytska / The Galician Dawn (Lviv, 15 May 1848)
40:10 People's Home in Lviv
40:45 Inaugural lecture of Iakiv Holovatskyi, Department of Ruthenian Language and Literature, University of Lviv, 23 October 1848
41:03 Depiction of the Ruthenian rifleman, 1849

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.