Course syllabus: Making of Modern Ukraine: History and Interpretations 
(4 credits) 

Lecturer: Yaroslav Hrytsak, PH.D., history, Lviv State University, Ukraine 

 
Course Goals: The course focuses on the nation-building processes in Ukraine of the XIX-XX centuries in the East European context. It is based on a critical reassessment of the previous paradigms, i.e., those ones of Ukrainian traditional historiographies, Marxist and post-Marxist interpretations, and 'modernization' theories. The course is intending to give an idea on the Ukrainian history as that one of a multicultural society, with permeability of cultures and political influences and with identities in a flux. 
 
Evaluation: 

1) class discussion (25%); 2)one brief paper (25%), one "take home" examination (50%) 

Course outline and readings: 

1. History of Ukraine in Contemporary Historiographic Discourse 

Readings: 

Mykhajlo Hrushevsky, The Traditional Scheme of "Russian" History and the Problem of a Rational Organization of the History of the Eastern Slavs From Kievan Rus' to Modern Ukraine: Formation of the Ukrainian Nation (Cambridge, Ma., 1984), 355-364 =10 

Frank E. Sysyn, Introduction to the History of Ukraine-Rus' Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus'. Vol. 1. From Prehistory to the Eleventh Century (Edmonton, 1997), xxii-xlii =21 

Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine (Toronto, Buffalo, London, University of Toronto Press, 1996): 12-24 =13 

Mark von Hagen, Does Ukraine Have a History?Slavic Review, Vol. 54, 3 (Fall 1995), 658-673 =16 

Total pages =60 
 

2 . What was the pre- and early- Modern Ukraine ? 

Readings: 

Ivan L. Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History (Edmonton,Canadian Insitute of Ukrainian Studies,1987), 1-9, 187-195 =18 

Ihor ·evãenko, Ukraine between East and West ( (Edmonton,Canadian Insitute of Ukrainian Studies,1996), 1-11 =11 

David Saunders, What Makes a Nation a Nation? Ukrainians since 1600 Ethnic Studies, Vol.10 (1993): 101-123 =23 

Total pages =52 

Maps: Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1985), Maps # 7 , 11, 13. 
 

3.The Intergration of Ukrainian Lands into Russian and Austrian Empires (1780-1840s) 

Readings: 

Stephen Velychenko, Identites, Loyalties and Service in Imperial Russia: Who Administred the Borderlands? The Russian Review. Vol.54, No 2:188-205. 

Ivan L. Rudnytsky.Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 123-127;315-323. =14 

Jan Kozik. The Ukrainian National Movement in Galicia: 1815-1849, (Edmonton,Canadian Institute of Ukrainain Studies, University of Alberta,1986), 29-50 =22 

Orest Pelech. The State and the Ukrainian Triumvirate in the Russian Empire, 1831-47 

Bohdan Krawchenko, ed.,Ukrainian Past, Ukrainian Present. (New York, St.Martin's Press,1992): 1-17 =18 

Total pages =50 

Maps: Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1985), Maps # 16, 19 

 
4. The Ukrainain Society in the Second Half of XIX-Beginnings of XX Centuries. 

Readings: 

Ivan L. Rudnytsky Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 128-141;323-346 =18 

Stephen Velychenko, Identites, Loyalties and Service in Imperial Russia: Who Administred the Borderlands? The Russian Review. Vol.54, No 2:188-205 =18 

Patricia Herlihy, Ukrainian Cities in the Nineteenth Century, Ivan L.Rudnytsky, ed., Rethniking Ukrainian History (Edmonton,Canadian Institute of Ukrainain Studies, University of Alberta, 1981):135-155 =21 

Total pages =57 

Maps: Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1985), Maps # 17, 18,20 
 

5-6. Ukraine in the Revolution 1917-1921. 

Readings: 

Ivan L. Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 389-416. =28 

Steven L. Guthier, The Popular Base of Ukrainian Nationalism in 1917Slavic Review, Vol. 38, No 1 (March 1979 ):30-47 =18 

Bohdan Krawchenko, The Social Structure of Ukraine in 1917, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 14, No 1/2 (June 1990): 97-112 =16 

Abramson H. Jewish Representation in the Independent Ukrainian Governments of 1917-1920, Slavic Review. Vol. 50. No 3 (Fall 1991): 542-550 =9 

Roman Szporluk. Review of: Taras Hunczak, ed. The Ukraine, 1917-1921: A Study in Revolution. Cambridge, Mass., 1977 The Annals of the Ukrainian of Arts and Sciences in the United States. Vol. XIV (1878-1880). N 37-38: 267-271 = 5 

John-Paul Himka, The National and the Social in the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1920,Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 34 (1994),95-110 =16 

Mark von Hagen, The Dillemas of Ukrainian Independence and Statehood, 1917-1921 The Harriman Institute Forum Vol. 7, N 5 (January 1994), 7-11 =5 

Total pages =97 

Maps: Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1985), Map # 21 

7.Soviet Ukraine in 1920-1930s: From Ukrainization To Great Terror 

Readings: 

George O.Liber. Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukraine SSR,1923-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 1992),33-45,49-64,107-120. =40 

James E.Mace. The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine,Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko, eds., Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933 (Edmonton,Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies,University of Alberta,1986),1-14 =13 

Bohdan Krawchenko.The Man-Made Famine of 1932-1933 Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko,eds., Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933 (Edmonton,Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies,University of Alberta,1986),15-26 =9 

Total pages = 62 

Maps: Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1985), Map # 22 

8. Western Ukraine in the Interwar Period: the Turn to the Right 

Readings: 

Ivan L. Rudnytsky. Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 105-108 =4 

John-Paul Himka. Western Ukraine between the Wars Canadian Slavonic Papers. Vol.XXXIV, No 4 (December 1992), 391-412 =23 

Alexander J. Motyl. The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism,1919-1929 (New York, distributed by Columbia University Press,1980),61-85 =24 

Total pages =51 

Maps: Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1985), Map # 22 

9. Ukraine during the WW.II. 

Readings: 

Bohdan Krawchenko, Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine (Edmonton,Canadian Insitute of Ukrainian Studies,1985), 153-170. =17 

Ivan L. Rudnytsky. Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 469-473,108-111. =9 

David R. Marples, Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s (Edmonton, Canadian Insitute of Ukrainian Studies, 1992), 42-63. =21 

Total pages =47 

Maps:Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1985), Map # 23 

10. Ukrainian Society after II WW. 

Readings: 

Ivan L. Rudnytsky. Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 469-475,477-489. =18 

Roman Szporluk . The Ukraine and Russia. Robert Conquest,ed.The Last Empire. Nationality and the Soviet Future. Stanford,1986,151-182 =32 

Total pages =50 

Maps: Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1985), Map # 24 
 

11.Ukraine: From Perestroika to Independence (1985-1995) 

Readings: 

Roman Szporluk. Reflections on Ukraine After 1994 Elections: The Dillemas of Nationhood. The Harriman Review. Vol.7, No 7-9 (March-May 1994),1-9 =9 

Alexander J.Motyl. Structural Constraints and Starting Points: The Logic of Systematic Change in Ukraine and Russia. Comparative Politics. Vol. 29, No 4 (July 1997), 433-447 =15 

Andrew Wilson, Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s. A Minority Faith (Cambridge, Britain, 1997), 194-202 =9 

Frank Sysyn, Ukrainian "Nationalism": A Minority Faith? The Harriman Review. Vol. 10. No 2 (Summer 1997), 12-20 =9 

Total pages =42