Lecture 30: The National movement, 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.

4:04 What are national movements?
19:01 Zoria halytska/The Galician Dawn (15 May 1848), The longest-lasting populist Ukrainian newspaper in Galicia, Dilo/The Deed (1880–1939), The longest-lasting Galician Russophile newspaper, Russkoe slovo/The Russian Word (1890–1914)
20:19 Ivan Franko
21:39 Naukovyi sbornyk/Scholarly Anthology (1865–68) of the Galician Rus' Cultural Foundation, Lviv; Vremmenik/Periodical Journal (1864–1939) of the Stauropegial Institute, Lviv
22:46 Building of the Prosvita society in Lviv
23:37 Prosvita Society reading room, Lviv
26:10 MC Dairy / Maslosoiuz / Маслосоюз
24:44 Shevchenko Scientific Society, Lviv
26:20 Advertisement for Maslosoiuz/The Butter Union, circa 1910
28:04 Shevchenko Scientific Society, Lviv, Mykhailo Hrushevsky
29:11 Notes of the Shevchenko Scientific Society
29:50 Kachkovskyi Society logo and reading room
32:39 Ievhen Zhelekhivskyi, Little Rus'-German Dictionary, 2 vols. (1882–86), standard literary language (Zhelekhivka) approved by Austrian government; Stepan Smal-Stotskyi and Fedir Gartner, Grammar of the Ruthenian Language, 3rd ed. (1914)
35:22 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky
43:51 Court drawing of the so-called Olga Grabar treason trial against seven Russophiles from Galician and Hungarian Rus' held in Lviv, June 1882
45:09 Dmitrii Markov and Galician "Russian" deputies in the Austrian Imperial Parliament together with their supporters, photo from 1907
45:38 Timofei Florinskii, Rus' Abroad and Its Bitter Fate (Kyiv, 1900); V. Stepankowsky, The Russian Plot to Seize Galicia (London, 1914)
46:56 Mikhail Sarych, Brotherly Greetings to Our Carpatho-Russian Brothers and Sisters Living in the Region of the Carpathian Mountains and in America, printed "in the capital of the Orthodox Russian tsar" (St. Petersburg, 1893)
48:41 Mykhailo Drahomanov
49:08 Mykhailo Hrushevskyi

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.