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

The author's epilogue, that is, and the final video on this series built on Serhii Plokhy's 2015 book The Gates of Europe, focusing on matters relative to today's war, including Ukrainian cultural development and nationalism, Russian influence, the role of Jews in this history, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Uniate Church, and Austrian Galicia.

As I have said, my reaction to this book will be detailed in the upcoming series of videos where I use discussions involving John-Paul Himka, retired professor of history at the Univ of Alberta, as the basis of an exploration into the important things that are inadequately addressed to missing entirely from this account. These include Ukrainian regionalism, nationalism (particulary the OUN and UPA), the importance of the far west, Austrian Galicia and Poland, in the development of Ukrainian social and political thinking, and of course the Jews. Himka is useful in this regard because he is a rather mainstream historian specioalizing in Ukraine who has recently fallen under the warm embrace of the Jewish Holocaustist historical community, but as a US midwesterner/Canadian he exhibits a kind of naive innocence when it comes to touching on things That Shall Not Be Openly Discussed, at least not in America.