Lecture 35: The West Ukrainian National Republic

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.

0:55 Ukraine in the 20th Century map
2:23 Ievhen Petrushevych
3:57 Woodrow Wilson's 14-point peace program
5:31 Timeline handout
7:06 Ievhen Petrushevych and his Western Ukrainian National Republic government
7:59 Proclamation of a Ukrainian State on the territory of former Austrian Galicia as it appeared in the newspaper Dilo, 2 November 1918
10:47 The West Ukrainian National Republic, 1918–1919 map
11:51 Proclamation! From 31 October 1918, all of Galicia is part of the independent united State of Poland
12:40 The Polish Eaglets (orlęta), high school and university students fighting for Lviv (Lwów) against supporters of the West National Ukrainian Republic
21:11 Ignacy Jan Paderewski
23:02 Józef Haller
23:54 Polish troops under Gerneral Józef Haller after driving the West Ukrainian National Republic out of Ternopil
26:23 Western Ukrainian National Republic government, Directory of the Ukrainian National Republic
26:11 Ievhen Petrushevych and Symon Petliura meet in Kamianets-Polilskyi, then seat of the Ukrainian National Republic, 1919
26:23 Ievhen Petrushevych (seated in center) and members of the West Ukrainian National Republic, 1919; Symon Petliura (seated in center) with the Directory of the Ukrainian National Republic, Kamianets-Podil's'kyi, July 1919
31:18 Ievhen Petrushevych (seated in center) with the exile government of the West National Ukrainian Republic, photo in Vienna, 1920
32:34 Omelian Popvych (1856–1930), head of the Ukrainian Regional Committee of Bukovina, October-November 1918
33:29 Iancu Flonder (1865-1924), president of the Romanian National Council of Bukovina, Chernivtsi, October-November 1918
33:44 Romanian Army entering Chernivtsi, administrative capital of Bukovina, 11 November 1918
36:44 Carpatho-Rusyn Councils and Republic, 1918–1920; Rus'ka Kraina
38:24 Gregory Žatkovich
39:24 Tomáš Masaryk

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.