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14: Interwar Poland’s Ukrainians

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Introduction

This podcast was recorded in the autumn of 2022, live in a classroom at Yale University. What we're going to try to do today is get into interwar Poland, and in particular interwar Poland's Ukrainian question. I'm going to start by setting a scene, and then we'll spend the rest of the lecture trying to figure out how that scene makes sense. So, here's the scene to imagine. It's December of 1933. A Polish border guard is at work carrying someone, leading someone towards the border to cross the border into the Soviet Union,. The two men are speaking to each other in Russian. How does it come to that? Isn't it interesting that Poland is sending

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