Lecture 29: Administrative and socioeconomic structure, 1849–1914

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.

4:35 Central Europe map 1910
8:50 Kingdom of Hungary military districts
10:50 Count Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski
16:15 Josef Jireček, Proposal to Have the Ruthenian Literary language Use the Latin/Roman Alphabet
19:00 Seat of the Galician Diet (Landtag/Sejm/Soim) in Lviv
19:15 Seat of the Bukovinian Diet (Landtag/Soim) in Chernivtsi
21:02 Session of the House of Deputies of the Austrian Imperial Parliament, Vienna
21:57 New seat of the Galician Diet (Landtag/Sejm/Soim) in Lviv
24:19 Otto von Bismarck, Minister President of Prussia
27:14 Coat of arms of Austria-Hungary
32:10 Peasants in Ukraine slide slow
35:13 Ukrainian Lands in Austria-Hungary, 1875
35:43 Jews in Galicia
40:56 Ruthenian / Ukrainian immigrants arriving in North America slide show
42:57 Lviv railway station
45:04 Boryslav, the oil capital of late 19th-century Austrian Galicia, circa 1900
47:24 Polish gentry donned in historical dress for a wedding in late 19th century Galicia
48:05 Ossolineum Library and Research Centre, Lviv, circa 1850
49:00 Jewish shop owner selling sewing materials at the market in Zhydachiv

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.