Comparative Russian Imperialism (lecture)

Making of Modern Ukraine, 21

This is the antepenultimate lecture in my public lecture class on “The Making of Modern Ukraine.” Delivered by my erudite colleague Odd Arne Westad, it begins the last stage of the class, a review of larger themes. No reading was assigned for this class, and there was no term sheet for the guest lecture; I would however highly recommend Professor Westad’s magisterial syntheses of cold war history, which represent the summit of the field. Professor Westad works in Chinese as well as Russian and many other sources, hence my choice of illustration:

The video is here and the podcast version is here or here.