Lecture 43: Soviet Ukraine until the death of Stalin

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.

5:17 Soviet Ukraine 1945 map
5:33 Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Iosif Stalin
6:34 Soviet Ukraine 1945 map
10:25 Population transfer 1944–1948 map
12:19 Displaced Persons (DP) camp near Munster in the American Zone of postwar Germany (1946); A "Ukrainian Worker's Home" camp in Giessen (Germany) for displaced Ukrainians (1948)
13:38 Ethnographic distribution map
13:55 Nationality composition of Soviet Ukraine, 1959
24:25 Delegates of Soviet Ukraine, a full member state of the United Nations, at the first session of the General Assembly in London, 1946
31:10 Kyivan Rus, 11th century map
35:38 A unit of the Ukrainian Insurgent army in the Carpathian mountains between Soviet Ukraine, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, 1947
39:03 UPA raids beyond Ukraine, 1945–47; Anti-Soviet resistance, 1944–60
40:47 Andrey Sheptytskyi
43:18 Josyf Slipyj (1892–1984) when he was arrested, April 1945
43:49 Havriil Kostelnyk at the opening of the Lviv Church Council (Sobor) L'viv Church Council (Sobor), 8 March 1946

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.