Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder's class 5 The Making of Modern Ukraine

[Tomconroy]

Last edited Thu Sep 22, 2022, 05:44 AM - Edit history (4)

Last Tuesdays lecture. These lectures are getting thousands and thousands of viewers all over the world. The first lecture has had over 200000 views.

We're getting there. All the way up to 1000AD now!

[Jim__]

1. Those are great classes. Thanks for posting about them.

[brush]

2. So the Roos (Vikings) from north, and the Byzanthians from the south...

(Greeks, Romans, Muslims) meet in Kiev, a long-existing city, and take over eventually from the Hussars and intermarry and become the Ukrainians?

All this happened before Moscow existed yet Putin says Ukrainians are the same people as Russians. Not.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Putin thinks everything belongs to him, same as Trump.

[mahina]

3. Was it you who posted 1-4? Thank you for these.

I really appreciate his book On Tyranny and did not know he was a scholar of Ukrainian history too.

[Tomconroy]

5. Yes that was me. Apparently Prof Snyder lobbied Yale to make

these available for free and it's turning out to be a big hit.