Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion

Why HN readers recommended it

Strongly recommended as an accessible, well-taught history of Ukraine and a counter to propaganda narratives.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

YaleCourses

Topic

ukrainian history

Format

lecture

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I can imagine Russia conducting as 'nuclear test' in or near Ukraine, but I think the consequences for Russia would be dire, and I hope the Russian leadership realise that. Ive been following the author's currently ongoing Yale course on the history of the Ukrainian …

• Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. [0] gives you invaluable understanding about much more than just Ukraine. MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005 [1] - the aircraft they focus on is the Space Shuttle. Amazingly demystifying. Some of the actual early designers talk …

• Timothy Snyder is just fantastic: [LINK] His class on Ukraine on Youtube is fantastic: [VIDEO] If I had a history class taught like this in college I might have looked at it. I think in one of his classes about Ukraine he mentioned that he …