This event is a part of the Center for Historical Research 2022-2023 Lecture Series.
Join the Center for Historical Research for a guest lecture with Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Germanic & Slavic Studies, University of Victoria. Yekelchyk is the author of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (2020); Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (2014); Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (2007).
Abstract: This talk will discuss the history of Russo-Ukrainian relations and its representation in both countries following the Soviet collapse in 1991. It will demonstrate how Putin’s nostalgia for the tsarist empire made Ukraine the likeliest target of Russian aggression and how Russia’s rejection of democracy determined the timing of the invasion.
If you have any inquiries regarding this program, questions about accessibility, or wish to request accommodations, please contact John Brooke, brooke.10@osu.edu. Typically, a two weeks' notice will allow us to provide access.
Event co-sponsored by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Political Science.
