{"id":34832,"date":"2025-10-15T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=34832"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:28:24","slug":"lecture-37-soviet-ukraine-1928-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/lecture-37-soviet-ukraine-1928-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 37: Soviet Ukraine, 1928\u20131939"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine: A History. Lecture 37: Soviet Ukraine, 1928-1939\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BcTncRdEvBI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Professor Paul Robert Magocsi \u2014 Ukraine: A History Course.<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Magocsi, one of the world\u2019s 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\u2019s importance to global security today.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Recordings of the lecture series were made possible with the support of the Temerty Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>All the lectures are available on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLGDWF-S8Wt4XVNFMHOt1UvlMwg_HlP9Ov\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=461s\">7:41<\/a> Peasants in Soviet Ukraine paying taxes in the form of grain, 1922<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=482s\">8:02<\/a> A thriving country market in Soviet Ukraine during the NEP years after 1923<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=828s\">13:48<\/a> Seat of the State Planning Commission\/GOSPLAN in Moscow, photo circa 1930<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=964s\">16:04<\/a> Blast furnaces at a metallurgical factory at Donets'k, 1924<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=1038s\">17:18<\/a> Dam under construction at the Hydroelectric Station near Zaporizhzhia, 1934<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=1301s\">21:41<\/a> 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<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=1351s\">22:31<\/a> Building a Machine Tractor Station in central Ukraine, 1930<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=1630s\">27:10<\/a> \"Wealthy\" peasant farmer\/kulak being interrogated by Soviet state inspector<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=1739s\">28:59<\/a> A family declared to be kulaks forced from their home in the Donetsk region, 1930<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=1842s\">30:42<\/a> Member of a collective farm guarding warehouse of grain seeds<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=2100s\">35:00<\/a> We won the war against those Ukrainians! Lazar Kaganovich, Iosif Stalin, Pavel Postyshev, and Kliment Voroshilov<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=2162s\">36:02<\/a> Mykola Khvylovyi, Oleksandr Shumskyi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=2385s\">39:45<\/a> Academician Serhii Iefremov (on the left), main defendant at the show trial against non-existant Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, Kharkiv 1930<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BcTncRdEvBI&amp;t=2627s\">43:47<\/a> Iosef Stalin and Mykola Skrypnyk<\/p>\n<p>For further information, you may wish to consult: <a href=\"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/book\/10.3138\/9781442610217\">A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples<\/a> (University of Toronto Press, 2010)<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Paul Magocsi<br \/>\nChair of Ukrainian Studies University of Toronto<br \/>\nToronto, Canada, September 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Paul Robert Magocsi \u2014 Ukraine: A History Course. 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