Ukraine and Poland, 1569-1999
History 684
Tuesdays, 1:30

Timothy Snyder
Yale University
timothy.snyder@yale.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12

The western question in Ukraine and the eastern question in Poland, from the incorporation of Ukraine by Poland in 1569 to the emergence of independent states in the late twentieth century.  Religious differences (and compromises), imperial oppositions (and accords), military conflict (and alliances), national rivalries (and borrowing).

Weekly presentations of the reading.  Weeks 10 and 11: additional documentary research, short written papers.  Week 12: on problems of national history.  Week 13 textual critique of work in progress.  Week 14: own essays.

Events

1569    Union of Lublin
1596    Union of Brest
1648    Khmelnyts'kyi Uprising
1667    Treaty of Andrusovo
1795    Third Partition of Poland
1918    Polish-West Ukrainian War
1920    Pilsudski-Petliura Alliance
1928    Volhynian Experiment
1943    Mutual Ethnic Cleansing begins
1973    Mieroszewski in Kultura
1989    Polish sovereignty
1991    Ukrainian independence
1992    Polish-Ukrainian Treaty
1999    Polish membership in NATO

A.        Introduction

Week Two

Timothy Snyder, Reconstruction of Nations, Parts 1 and 2
Peter J. Potychnyj, ed., Poland and Ukraine, Part 1

B.        Early Modern Politics

Week Three:    Incorporation

Daniel Stone, The Polish-Lithuanian State, pp. 36-127  (read first)
Antoine Martel, La langue polonaise dans les pais ruthenes
Oskar Halecki, Przylaczenie Podlasia, Wo≥ynia, i Kijowszczyzny

Week Four:     Nobles

Natalia Iakovenko, Narys istorii ukrainy, chapters 4-5 (Polish edition: Historia Ukrainy) (read first)
Natalia Iakovenko, Paralel'nyi svit, pp. 7-144
Henryk Litwin, Naplyw szlachty polskiej na Ukraine, entire
Frank Sysyn, Between Poland and the Ukraine

C.        Early Modern Religion

Week Five:      Brest Union

Oskar Halecki, Florence to Brest, entire, but judiciously
Borys Gudziak, Crisis and Reform, entire

Week Six:        Churchmen

David Frick, Meletij Smotryc'kyi, entire
Ihor SevËenko, Byzantium and the Slavs, pp. 651-688.

D.        Empires

Week Seven:   Russia (Instititions)

Zenon Kohut, Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy, entire
Ted Weeks, Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia, 70-130

Week Eight:    Russia (Poles and Ukrainians)

Daniel Beauvois, Le noble, le serf, et le revisor (Polish: Polacy na Ukrainie, 1831-1863)
Daniel Beauvois, La bataille de la terre en Ukraine, 1863-1914 (Polish: Walka o ziemiÍ)

Week Nine:     Austria

Iaroslav Hrytsak, Istoriia Ukrainy (Polish edition: Historia Ukrainy) (read first)
Andrei Markovits and Frank Sysyn, eds., Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism, chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9
John-Paul Himka, Socialism in Galicia (entire)

E.         Communism, 1917-1941

Week Ten:       The Soviet Union

Richard Pipes, Formation of the Soviet Union, 1-74, 114-154, 242-297
Terry Martin, Affirmative Action Empire, 31-124, 211-343

Presentations: Documentary critique.

Week Eleven:  Poland

George Jackson, Comintern and Peasant in Eastern Europe, 57-158, 181-214, 298-320
Janusz Radziejowski, The Communist Party of West Ukraine, (Polish   edition: Komunistyczna Partia Zachodniej Ukrainy), entire
Jan Gross, Revolution from Abroad (read last)

Presentations: Documentary critique

F.         Second World War, 1941-1945

Week Twelve:

Ryszard Torzecki, Polacy i Ukraincy
Ihor Iliushyn, OUN-UPA
Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany

Presentations: National history?

G.        Workshop

Week Thirteen:

Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War
Tomasz Stryjek, Ukrainska idea narodowa okresu miÍdzywojennego, entire

Presentations: Critique of essay

H.        Conclusions

Week Fourteen:

Snyder, Reconstruction, part three

Presentations: Essays