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5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State

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. I promise you that by the end of this lecture, something's going to happen. There is a Ukrainian society and Ukrainian state today, which means that it must have been possible. The most we can do is guide ourselves towards a greater understanding of how such a thing was possible. But there always has to be room for what the people actually did.

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