Spring 2023 History Course 22600 - Russia, Ukraine and the World: History and Current Events
Ithaca College
Department of History
Russia, Ukraine, and the World: History and Current Events
Spring 2023
HIST 22600-01 and 02 (3 credits)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10 am and 2 pm
Zenon V. Wasyliw
Professor, Department of History
Muller 427, 274-1587, wasyliw@ithaca.edu
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10 am-10:30 and 1:00-1:30. I am also available other days and times by appointment through e-mail communication or by request during class meetings
http://faculty.ithaca.edu/wasyliw
Introduction
This interdisciplinary course evaluates the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a review of both recent developments since the collapse of the USSR and deeper historical interpretive comparisons going back centuries. Ukraine’s evolution of building a democratic civil society especially since the 2013-1014 Revolution of Dignity and leadership of its president Zelensky is compared with the rise of an authoritarian Russian military police state under the rule of Putin, leading to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the world. Varied historical interpretations and methodologies, including the decolonization of history, provide an integrative analysis of this era and possible future developments. The course has a current events component and will feature guest speakers. Cultural values, manifestations and social identities and their importance in everyday life are also threaded throughout the course as is the role of social media.
Student Learning Objectives and a Humanities Perspective
Content
- Students will compare competing historical political systems and their impact on the current situation between Ukraine and Russia
- Students will evaluate the changing historical legacies and their political and ideological weaponization
- Students will evaluate cultural and social values of peoples’ everyday lives.
- Students will evaluate causes leading to the fall of the USSR and the continuation of Russian imperialism through a neo-colonialism and the current war against Ukraine
- Students will evaluate political, social, cultural, and global changes and developments in the post-Soviet space and the impact of competing world systems in the identities of Ukraine and Russia
Course Books
Required -
Gregg Bucken-Knapp; Joonas Sildre, Messages from Ukraine (ethnoGRAPHIC)
First Edition 9781487559830
Serhy Yekelchyk, Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know Second Edition
9780197532119
Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: An Illustrated History
9781442627567
Other assigned readings will be pdf format posted on Canvas
FRIDAY CURRENT EVENTS Study groups will rotate referencing the following sources -
Kyiv Independent - https://kyivindependent.com/ https://kyivindependent.com/category/podcasts
Kyiv Post - https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/videos
Meduza (Banned in Russia now outside Russia) https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/en/podcasts/the-naked-pravda
Moscow Times - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/
BBC War in Ukraine - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60525350
The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/ukraine-live https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine
NY Times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/world/europe
Institute for the Study of War - https://www.understandingwar.org/
https://libguides.ithaca.edu/NYT Subscription through IC Library
Daily briefings from Office of the President of Ukraine (press cc for English translation)
https://www.youtube.com/@PresidentGovUa
BABYLON’13 cinema of civil society
https://babylon13.org.ua/?lang=en
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4R7G-LBUsStEakye90uF3P8_HWLRZEXY https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/17/karamurza-putin-propaganda-russia-accountability/
TOPICS AND READING ASSIGNMENTS
The syllabus outline, topics and assignments are subject to change depending on student interest and contemporary developments or issues
WEEK ONE – January 23, 25, 27 Identity, Culture and Broad History
Introduction to course syllabus and completion of student surveys
https://www.state.gov/united-with-ukraine/
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-russia/
https://www.infoplease.com/countries/russia/state-department-notes-on-russia
https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/places/baltic-cis/countries/ukraine/history
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18010123 Ukraine Timeline
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17840446 Russia Timeline
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18018002 Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17839672 Russia
https://ukrainer.net/national-communities-in-the-war/ Multinational Ukraine
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/ukraine.htm
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/History.asp
https://www.ukma.edu.ua/eng/ufl/lesson2.htm Ukrainian alphabet transliteration
Culture, Language and Geography of Ukraine, Russia, and surrounding areas
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukraines-history-and-its-centuries-long-road-to-independence
Zelensky vs. Putin
Servant of the People - https://www.netflix.com/title/80119382
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvjsjvXQM4
Volodymyr Zelensky and the Spirit of Ukraine: TIME Person of the Year 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPXijdUCDNs
Putin's Russia: dictator syndrome and the rise of a 'mafia state' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irzB-C9eSrQ
Alexey Navalny - Putin's palace. History of world's largest bribe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI (125 million views)
How Zelensky Has Changed Ukraine - https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-zelensky-has-changed-ukraine/
Putinism
https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/-putinism-2022-03-13
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/stephen-kotkin-putin-russia-ukraine-stalin
Snyder Ukraine course - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8
WW I to Euromaidan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZkqFRByOM0
The Animated History of Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJvz3Ai9Ppw
WEEK TWO and THREE – January 30, February 1, 3, 6, 8, and 10
Context – “Why Ukraine? Yekelchyk pages 1-12
Ukraine after Communism, Fall of the USSR, Independence and Evolution
Yekelchyk pages 56-77 discussion of Yekelchyk’s questions
Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt1OXtxUBNo
Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1991-2/baltic-independence/
Ten Minute History - The Decline and Dissolution of the Soviet Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Pqt3U48MFcY
The End of the Soviet Union http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1991-2/the-end-of-the-soviet-union/
The Yeltsin Years, Russian nationalism
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1991-2/eltsin-and-russian-sovereignty/
Best of Boris Yeltsin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9YnDirqwT4
https://aeon.co/essays/the-soviet-union-never-really-solved-russian-nationalism
WEEK FOUR and FIVE – February 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24
The Orange Revolution and Euromaidan
Yekelchyk, pages 78-103
Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity
Ukraine - Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nocaC-4Du-M
Netflix - Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (Revolution of Dignity) 2013-14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNxLzFfR5w
Student
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvds2AIiWLA
Ukrainian and Russian politics
How Zelensky Has Changed Ukraine - https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-zelensky-has-changed-ukraine/
Putinism
https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/-putinism-2022-03-13
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/stephen-kotkin-putin-russia-ukraine-stalin
WEEK SIX AND SEVEN February 27, March 1 and 3, 6, 8, 10
Russia’s Annexation of Crimea and the War in the Donbas
Yekelchyk, pages 104-139, additional sources on Canvas
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220401-donbass-the-ukrainian-satire-thats-too-real
SPRING BREAK
WEEK EIGHT and NINE March 20, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31
The contested early years – decolonizing history and current militarization of historical narratives
Yekelchyk pages 24-38 and specific related chapters from the Magocsi book
Self-selected Study Group topics
Kyivan Rus and contested Ukrainian/Russian legacy legacy vs, Rise of Moscow (Muscovy), and Tsarist autocracy. Ivan the Terrible and beyond
Ukrainian Lands and European Identity Galicia-Volyn, Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth and rise of Ukrainian Cossacks and Ukrainian autonomy and identity
Russian Empire and Colonialism Peter the Great and Mazepa, The Battle of Poltava of 1709 and Catherine the Great expansion of Empire and serfdom
Nineteenth Century Tsarist “Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationality” prohibition of Ukrainian language and the poet Taras Shevchenko. Tsarist persecution of Jews and Jewish Pogroms
Western Ukraine within the Austrian Habsburg Empire – European identity and elections
WEEK TEN and Eleven April 3, 5, 7, 10, 12 14
The Soviet Era The USSR
Yekelchyk pages 38-55 and related Magocsi chapters
Self-selected Study Group topics
Ukrainian Lands 1917-1920 Revolution and Independence, Russian Civil War Reds and Whites and Poland
Ukrainian Republic within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Cultural Renaissance (1920s) to Repression - The Holodomor (Ukrainian Famine) and Stalinist Repression
The Second World War Military History and Babi Yar, Holocaust and Jewish Legacy in Ukraine and Eastern Europe
Post WW2 Ukraine communist policies, russification and rise of dissidents Helsinki Accords 1975 – Human Rights https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/helsinki
Things fall apart – Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe and war in Afghanistan
WEEK 12 and 13 April 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 27
Russia’s Second Invasion 24 February 2022
The War in Ukraine as an International Issue
Yekelchyk pages 140-181
Diane Francis - https://dianefrancis.substack.com/p/this-is-genocide-not-war-preview
https://ukrainica.huri.harvard.edu/ Primary Database of Ukrainian Studies
Historian Timothy Snyder
Snyder - https://snyder.substack.com/p/russias-eugenic-war
Snyder - https://snyder.substack.com/p/gratitude-to-ukraine
https://snyder.substack.com/p/such-problematic-such-frightful-poems
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-russian-crimes-of-2014
https://snyder.substack.com/p/help-stop-a-genocide
https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-sanctions-and-silencings
WEEK 14 May 1, 3, 5
February 24, 2022, to present and future
Oleksandra Matviichuk: Rebuilding Ukraine, Rebuilding the World Keynote Address - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Sb9JIhxXk
Gregg Bucken-Knapp; Joonas Sildre, Messages from Ukraine (ethnoGRAPHIC)
International responses and alliances
Ukrainian resilience
WEEK 15 May 8, 10, 12
Finals week
Week Five take-home essay/project 25%
Week Ten take-home essay/project 25%
Final take-home essay and
Special Project 25%
Collective, study group work, short answer
Reviews, attendance, participation 25%
100%
Grade Explanations: Please Review
A= Clearly exceptional work for an undergraduate student. Outstanding, original, excellent.
B= Above average work for an undergraduate student. Very good, consistently thoughtful,
and analytical.
C= Average work for an undergraduate student. Met minimum requirements, intermittently
thoughtful, insightful, and/or analytical. Satisfactory.
D= See me immediately for individual help. Not acceptable work.
F= See me immediately. Failure to meet minimal expectations
- Required text – Serhy Yekelchyk, Ukraine, What Everyone Needs to Know
Gregg Bucken-Knapp; Joonas Sildre, Messages from Ukraine (ethnoGRAPHIC)
Paul Robert Magocsi, Ukraine: An Illustrated History
Additional readings and information is posted on Canvas
- Essay assessments – Take home assignments at five times weeks and ten weeks of the semester. Each is worth 25% The essay assignments will allow for a measure of creativity
- The final take-home examination due exam week includes a special project component. The project must be on a subject of intense personal interest related to Ukrainian or Russian history or current events and culture. Creative and non-conformist topics are he especially favored. Similar themed collaboration is encouraged through group projects yet individual projects are also fine. Varied and creative presentations are encouraged
- Friday class meetings will review current events and at will include guest speakers or video conferencing
- Collective study group work, short answer reviews, attendance, and participation
- This is a new and experimental course. The syllabus and assignments might be modified throughout the semester.
- Please check Canvas announcements and email notified Canvas announcements. Additional materials, assignments and updates are posted at least on a weekly basis. Study group presentation are posted on Canvas discussion. Submit paper assignments directly to my email wasyliw@ithaca.edu only in word document or pdf. Never submit papers to Canvas. Times Roman, 12 point double spaced.
- I look forward to a wonderful semester!
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Conceptual Frameworks ICC
History in the News is a humanities course that seeks to understand the human experience through analysis, interpretation, and reflection, engaging in the particulars of individual experiences, texts, or other artifacts.
Humanities Perspective (HM)
1. Understand and analyze human expression (such as language, texts, or images) through the lens of the humanities;
2. Recognize and begin to appraise existing arguments and articulate arguments of your own;
3. Describe and interpret the values, beliefs, and behaviors of yourself and others in the context of historical and/or contemporary cultural institutions.
This course has been approved by IC’s Committee for College-Wide Requirements for meeting the qualifications of the Integrative Core Curriculum. Contingent upon successful completion of all course requirements and the uploading of required learning outcome artifacts onto Taskstream (indicated elsewhere on this syllabus), this class meets and satisfies the ICC identities, power and justice and humanities perspective designation.
Rubrics that are currently being used to assess ICC learning outcomes are available here, http://www.ithaca.edu/icc/docs/iccrubrics/
ICC
ICC Theme World of Systems, Humanities Perspective
SLO 1: Students will identify and interpret the structures of governance and domestic policies that lead to greater social and cultural expression.
Artifact 1:
This will be assessed by short page critiques of cultural and social primary source artifacts
SLO 2: Students will examine the system breakdown with the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the evolution of new systems in Post-Soviet spaces concluding with Putin’s “managed democracy” autocratic military-police system competing with liberal democracies contrasted with Ukraine’s move to a democratic civil society
Artifact 2:
This will be assessed by a 4-page assigned essay that integrates primary sources in a critical analysis
Humanities (HM)
1. Understand and analyze human expression (such as language, texts, or images) through the lens of the humanities
2. Recognize and begin to appraise existing arguments and articulate arguments of their own; and
3. Describe and interpret the values, beliefs, and behaviors of self and others in the context of historical and/or contemporary cultural institutions