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12: Habsburg Curiosity

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. We have a really important and interesting job today, which is to get through the Habsburg family. It's an especially easy case to make because they were in power or in some form or other for about 600 years - one place or another. This would be a very different war if someone besides Volodymios Olensky were present in Ukraine. And more interestingly, why is it that of all the peoples around the world, the people who remember the Habsbergs fondly tend to be in western Ukraine?

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