A History of Ukraine: The Gates of Europe(an War) - part 13

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. Oh, and Austrian Galicia too.

This 13th part finished both the read from 200 Years Together on the pogroms and chapter 19 of the book, addressing the Jewish Question but only related to anti-semitism and pogroms, and then the end of the failed nationalist independent state project. In the next video I will start by addressing why that failed from a great powers standpoint and the extent to which it actually succeeded in far western Ukraine, and then start the USSR period between the wars that is the subject of chapter 20 and beyond.