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19: Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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This podcast was recorded in the autumn of 2022, live in a classroom at Yale University. It appears that a couple of Russian missiles just fell on Polish territory - which leads us nicely into our theme today. What I'd like to do today is take a step back and talk at greater length about the Polish factor. And so the Kossachs, the struggling peasantry, the battle for land, all of that is chiefly about not Russia, but Poland, it's about Poland.

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