Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 20. Maidan and Self Understanding

What can be that breaking point in a persons life Class 20 examines the Maidan and the SelfUnderstanding that resulted. Guest lecturer is Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History at Yale University. Marci Shore, Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. What does it mean for a nation to exist Is this a matter of structures, actions, or both Why has the existence of Ukraine occasioned such controversy In what ways are Polish, Russian, and Jewish selfunderstanding dependent upon experiences in Ukraine