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3: Geography and Ancient History

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Is There Something to Do With Deep Geography?

In Ukraine, history is a matter of being able to say, huh, well, maybe I'm not right. And one way that we'll be talking about it in this course is the very broad approach of colonial history. If what you know about Russia has this kind of metaphysical underlay, which is actually then pushing the empirical evidence around, that's going to be a problem for you. The Kiev and Rus somehow becomes Moscow, somehow all the same place. That basic story is dominant in Germany and France and in England. It's not just us. It's a story, okay, I'll get to why it's an ironic story.

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