{"id":35643,"date":"2025-12-10T22:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=35643"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:31:46","slug":"lecture-45-the-gorbachev-era-and-the-road-to-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/lecture-45-the-gorbachev-era-and-the-road-to-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 45: The Gorbachev era and the road to independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine: A History. Lecture 45: The Gorbachev era and the road to independence\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVB4pES_ACU?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=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=24s\">0:24<\/a> Leonid Brezhnev<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=82s\">1:22<\/a> Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=140s\">2:20<\/a> Mikhail Gorbachev<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=604s\">10:04<\/a> Last Soviet troop column crosses a bridge on the border between Afghanistan and then Soviet Uzbekistan, February 1989<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=727s\">12:07<\/a> Hungarian-Austrian border<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=1150s\">19:10<\/a> Leon Trotsky<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=1219s\">20:19<\/a> A human chain stretching 900 kms from L'viv to Kyiv organized by Rukh, 21 January 1990<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=1372s\">22:52<\/a> Confession administered clandestinely in a forest by an underground Greek Catholic priest near the Galician village of Urochyshche, 1987<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=1636s\">27:16<\/a> Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=1789s\">29:49<\/a> Leonid Kravchuk<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=1900s\">31:40<\/a> Declaration of Ukraine's independence, Kyiv, Ukraine 24 August 1991<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVB4pES_ACU&amp;t=2026s\">33:46<\/a> The results of the Ukrainian independence referendum of 1 December 1991<\/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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