A History of Ukraine: The Gates of Europe(an War) - part 1

Something of a Ukrainian history lesson, using Serhii Plokhy's 2015 book The Gates of Europe, and focused on matters relative to today's war, including Ukrainian cultural development and nationalism, Russian influence, the role of Jews in this history, and even the Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Uniate Church.

In these first two videos I cover the period from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 18th, from the Union of Brest to Pylyp Orlyk’s Constitution.