The Colonial, The Post-Colonial, and the Global (lecture)

Making of Modern Ukraine, 23

This final lecture in my public Yale class on “The Making of Modern Ukraine” gathers up the major theme of colonialism.

To see Ukraine as a subject in history, we have to understand how others have seen it as an object. This is patently obvious during the present war; but it is also important to the Polish and German factors in Ukrainian history.

The…