Lecture 36: Soviet Ukraine, 1920–1927
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.
4:07 Central Europe 1918–1923 map
8:18 Ukrainian lands during the interwar years
12:08 Ukrainian lands 1923 map
15:12 Avant-garde design for book covers by leading authors during the height of Ukrainianzation: Mykola Khvyl'ovyi, Pavlo Tychyna, Iurii Ianovs'kyi, and Ivan Dniprovsk'kyi
15:39 A mobile library brings books to villagers in Soviet Ukraine, 1929
18:45 Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
32:06 Vlas Chubar
35:03 Mykhailo Hrushevsky
40:16 Members of VAPLITE in 1926, seated from left to right: Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Khvylovyi, Mykola Kulish, Oleksa Slisarenko, Mike Johansen, Gordyi Kotsyuba, Petro Punch, Arkady Lyubchenko. Standing, from left to right: Mykhailo Maisky, Hryhoryi Epik, Oleksandr Kopylenko, Ivan Senchenko, Pavlo Ivanov, Yuryi Smolych, Oles Dosvitniy, Ivan Dniprovskyi
40:35 Mykola Khvylovy
42:41 Alexander Shumsky
43:36 Mykola Skrypnyk
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.
