Dr. Timothy Snyder (U Toronto, previously Yale) — free Ukraine history course on YouTube
Who is he?
Dr. Timothy Snyder is a historian of Central & Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust. Currently at U Toronto, previously at Yale.
https://history.yale.edu/people/timothy-snyder
His Substack “Thinking About”
Who is he? Dr. Timothy Snyder is a historian of Central & Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust. Currently at U Toronto, previously at Yale.
https://history.yale.edu/people/timothy-snyder
Dr. Snyder has written multiple books on Eastern Europe and Ukraine, and in 2022 he made his Yale lecture course “The Making of Modern Ukraine” freely available to the public.
He has written many books including but not limited to:
– 2010 – Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.
-2017 – On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
-2018 – The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America.
– 2020 – Our Malady – A book on the American health care system
– 2020 On Freedom – A book on how the concept of freedom has been misunderstood and must be redefined
“The Making of Modern Ukraine” (Yale lecture series) is a:
A 23-lecture recorded Yale lecture course (Fall 2022) released publicly—free—on YouTube (YaleCourses) and also available as a podcast.
Snyder frames Ukraine as central to big chapters of European/world history, with major topics including: the Kyiv state, Lithuania/Poland, empires (Russian & Austrian), Jewish and Polish urban life, nationalism, revolution, Soviet modernization and terror, Nazi occupation/Holocaust, ethnic cleansing, late Soviet era, post-1991 independence, the Orange Revolution & Maidan, the 2014 war, and the current war.