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Making of Modern Ukraine 14

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Making of Modern Ukraine 14

Poland's Ukrainian Question

Timothy Snyder
Apr 23, 2023
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If you are a recent subscriber: I am sending out each weekend a couple of lectures from my class “The Making of Modern Ukraine,” which Yale has kindly made generally accessible. All of the lectures are available all of the time at the links below, as video or as podcast. In these weekend posts, I am adding a very short summary as well as the assigned readings and relevant terms. Thanks for coming along!

This lecture is concerned with Polish-Ukrainian relations. Much of what is now western Ukraine was, between the world wars, part of Poland. As we know from previous lectures, the connection between Ukrainian lands and Poland is ancient. These connections continue, in various economic and cultural forms, even during the period (1795-1918) when there was no Polish state. We are concerned here with the period 1918-1939, when Poland had been established as a modern nation-state, in which Ukrainians now figured as a national minority. This was a new configuration, and it was much influenced by Ukrainian memory of greater freedom under the Habsburgs and by the contemporary challenge of the Soviet Union, where most Ukrainians now lived. There was a good deal of Ukrainian-Polish strife in this period, but also some important examples of cooperation and mutual learning, some of which are quite relevant today.

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

Reading:

Rudnyts'kyi, "Polish-Ukrainian Relations: The Burden of History"

Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War, entire

Terms:

Roman Dmowski, Józef Piłsudski

National Democrats, PPS (Polish Socialist Party)

Russo-Japanese War

Entente

Treaty of Riga March 1921

Józef Piłsudski

Gabriel Narutowicz

Galicia Galicja Halychyna ---Volhynia Wołyń Volyn

UNDO  Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance

OUN Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

KPZU Communist Party of West Ukraine

Operation Trust

maskirovka

Henryk Józewski

Volhynian Experiment

Prometheanism

Jerzy Niezbrzycki

Dekulakization

"Dizzy with success"

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