Lecture 37: Soviet Ukraine, 1928–1939
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.
7:41 Peasants in Soviet Ukraine paying taxes in the form of grain, 1922
8:02 A thriving country market in Soviet Ukraine during the NEP years after 1923
13:48 Seat of the State Planning Commission/GOSPLAN in Moscow, photo circa 1930
16:04 Blast furnaces at a metallurgical factory at Donets'k, 1924
17:18 Dam under construction at the Hydroelectric Station near Zaporizhzhia, 1934
21:41 Agitators calling on peasants to form a collective farm in their village, circa 1930,Threshing grain on a collective farm near Zinov'ivs'k, 1935
22:31 Building a Machine Tractor Station in central Ukraine, 1930
27:10 "Wealthy" peasant farmer/kulak being interrogated by Soviet state inspector
28:59 A family declared to be kulaks forced from their home in the Donetsk region, 1930
30:42 Member of a collective farm guarding warehouse of grain seeds
35:00 We won the war against those Ukrainians! Lazar Kaganovich, Iosif Stalin, Pavel Postyshev, and Kliment Voroshilov
36:02 Mykola Khvylovyi, Oleksandr Shumskyi
39:45 Academician Serhii Iefremov (on the left), main defendant at the show trial against non-existant Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, Kharkiv 1930
43:47 Iosef Stalin and 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.
