Our second lecture will take place on 20 April (15:00 Chile; 20:00 London; 21:00 Berlin; 22:00 Kyiv).
Our second speaker is Dr Stephan Rindlisbacher, European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder). His lecture is entitled “The Territory of Ukraine and Its History”
Ukraine’s territory is a product of political decisions that date back to the Soviet Union and the Second World War. This lecture aims to reconstruct these processes of territorial formation in chronological order. First, it will be shown how the creation of Soviet Ukraine in 1919 was no means to “divide and rule”, but a strategy of managing the diversity of Soviet space. Second, the talk explores the territorial gains during and after the Second World War. Finally, the territorial transfer of Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 is scrutinised in order to deconstruct the popular myth of the transfer to be “Khrushchev’s gift” to Ukraine.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6649748877
Meeting ID: 664 974 8877
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