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Podcast Friday - Ukrainian history
Apr. 25th, 2025 05:42 pmA coincidental double-feature about Ukrainian history today!
The best podcast for Ukrainian history is obviously Timothy Snyder's fall 2022 Yale course, The Making of Modern Ukraine, which he taught in light of the Russian invasion.
But that's a pretty long thing to listen to! Anthony Bartaway from Ukraine Without Hype has decided to also try his hand at a shorter version of it. He was aiming for one hour, he did it in two in 99: Ukrainian History 101. In a way I found it was somewhat complementary to Snyder's course, unless I have already forgotten large chunks of that! It was a good episode and I should listen to it again more closely so that it sticks... 8)
A more specific bit of Ukrainian history comes from Charlie Allison on
KPFA - Against the Grain: Ukrainian Anarchist. Allison wrote No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno published by PM Press, and he gives us a decent lecture summarizing it. I think as a podcast thing, Mike Duncan was a bit better than Allison talking about the more important aspects of Makhno's life during the Revolutions episode where he spent some time on him, but then again he wasn't trying to give a full biography.
My third recommendation today slightly touches on Ukraine but is more general. It's an episode of David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: [S5.5 E08] The Politics of Humiliation. Here Harvey discusses national humiliation, from the Opium Wars and Versailles, to the WWII settlement, the end of the Cold Wars, to the wars on Ukraine and Gaza. There's a funny bit in there about how Trump complaining about Fentanyl coming to the US from China is ironic considering the historical precedent of the Opium Wars... Anyway this was insightful and gave me much to think about, though I it missed a crucial element regarding Ukraine, aka Ukrainians' own aspirations.
The best podcast for Ukrainian history is obviously Timothy Snyder's fall 2022 Yale course, The Making of Modern Ukraine, which he taught in light of the Russian invasion.
But that's a pretty long thing to listen to! Anthony Bartaway from Ukraine Without Hype has decided to also try his hand at a shorter version of it. He was aiming for one hour, he did it in two in 99: Ukrainian History 101. In a way I found it was somewhat complementary to Snyder's course, unless I have already forgotten large chunks of that! It was a good episode and I should listen to it again more closely so that it sticks... 8)
A more specific bit of Ukrainian history comes from Charlie Allison on
KPFA - Against the Grain: Ukrainian Anarchist. Allison wrote No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno published by PM Press, and he gives us a decent lecture summarizing it. I think as a podcast thing, Mike Duncan was a bit better than Allison talking about the more important aspects of Makhno's life during the Revolutions episode where he spent some time on him, but then again he wasn't trying to give a full biography.
My third recommendation today slightly touches on Ukraine but is more general. It's an episode of David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: [S5.5 E08] The Politics of Humiliation. Here Harvey discusses national humiliation, from the Opium Wars and Versailles, to the WWII settlement, the end of the Cold Wars, to the wars on Ukraine and Gaza. There's a funny bit in there about how Trump complaining about Fentanyl coming to the US from China is ironic considering the historical precedent of the Opium Wars... Anyway this was insightful and gave me much to think about, though I it missed a crucial element regarding Ukraine, aka Ukrainians' own aspirations.