Lecture 31: World War I and western Ukraine

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.

9:39 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
12:20 European Alliances: Central Powers (Triple Alliance), Allied Powers (Entente) 18:05 The Balkan Peninsula, 1912–1913 map, conflicting claims to Macedonia
20:06 Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
27:30 Unit of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, photo from 6 August 1914; Austrian Archduke Charles, the future emperor of Austria-Hungary, decorating Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, circa 1917
29:13 Orthodox priest Aleksei Kabaliuk and jurists at the Maramarosh-Sighet treason trial, photo from 25 January 1914
30:26 Tsarist Russian troops enter Lviv, 3 September 1914
32:36 Summary executions of civilians in Eastern Galicia, winter 1914/1915; Deportation of Galician-Ruthenians to the Thalerhof internment camp near Graz, August 1914; Thalerhof internment camp
33:35 Internment camps / Concentration camps in Canada, 1914–1920 map
35:40 Georgii Bobrinskii
39:50 Austro-Hungarian troops return to Lviv, June 1915
42:45 Members of the General Ukrainian Council based in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, 5 May 1915
45:36 Ievhen Petrushevych
46:23 United States President Woodrow Wilson

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.