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Syllabus The Birth of a Nation: The Ukrainian Case - 54646
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Last update 21-08-2022
HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: European Studies

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Samuel Barnai

Coordinator Email: Samuel.Barnai@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: By E-mail Appointment

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Samuel Barnai

Course/Module description:
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Course/Module aims:
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Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
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Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lectures

Course/Module Content:
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Required Reading:
Magocsi, P. R., A history of Ukraine: the land and its peoples (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010)
Plokhy, S., The gates of Europe: a history of Ukraine (NY: Basic Books, 2015)
Smith C. M., Ukraine's revolt, Russia's revenge (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
Subtelny, O., Ukraine a history (Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press; 2000)

Additional Reading Material:
Applebaum, A., Red famine: Stalin's war on Ukraine (New York: Doubleday, 2017)
Bilenkyi, S., Romantic nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian political imaginations (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2012)
Berkhoff, K. C., Harvest of despair: life and death in Ukraine under Nazi rule (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004)
Miller, A. I., The Ukrainian question: the Russian Empire and nationalism in the nineteenth century (Budapest, NY: Central European University Press; 2003)
Yekelchyk, S., Ukraine: birth of a modern nation (Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2007)

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
 
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