The Origins of Russia and Ukraine

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The Origins of Russia and Ukraine
The Origins of Russia and Ukraine
In today’s video, I go through the origins of Russia and Ukraine. Who is the rightful inheritor to the Kyivan Rus?

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Sources (I imagine I will make a video explaining the sources used in the future)

Dimnik, Martin. “The Title ‘Grand Prince’ in Kievan Rus’.” Mediaeval Studies 66 (2004): 253–312.

Chirovsky, Nicholas L. An Introduction to Ukrainian History. 1. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Philosophical Library, 1981.

Halperin, Charles J. Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Hanak, Walter K. The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus’, 980-1054: A Study of Sources. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Hrushevsky, Mykhailo. From Kievan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine: Formation of the Ukrainian nation. Ukrainian Studies Fund, Harvard University, 1984.

Hrushevsky, Mykhailo. History of Ukraine-Rusʹ. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2010

Klyuchevsky, Vasily Osipovich. A History of Russia. London & New York, 1911.

Martin, Janet. Medieval Russia: 980-1584. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Paszkiewicz, H. The Origin of Russia. New York, NY: Philosophical Library, 1954.

Pelenski, Jaroslaw. The Contest for the Legacy of Kievan Rus’. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Perrie, Maureen, Dominic Lieven, and Ronald Grigor Suny. The Cambridge History of Russia. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Plokhy, Serhii. The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

https://orthochristian.com/116251.html (The series of articles on this are good, but heavily biased)

Ostroh in the shadow of History-https://www.youtube.com/watch?vBzOvCklbDjs&t

I also thank Charles Coulombe and the Off the Menu podcast, Charles’ coverage of Slavic history throughout their podcasts certainly inspired this.

Films used:

Andrei Rublev by Tarkovsky
Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky by Eisenstein
(All of these films are amazing but contain some strange and sometimes explicit scenes so be advised)

Music: Much of the music is either Mussorgsky’s /”Great gate of Kiev/” and others from the Pictures at an Exhibition or is Tchaikovsky which I obtained from musopen. I got the Mongol chanting from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v3EM1yfL6WG0&t

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – 01:00 Intro
01:00 – 02:44 The Russian vs. Ukrainian position
02:44 – 07:14 Early Rus’
07:14 – 10:48 The Tatar Yoke
10:48 – 13:50 Building a Ukrainian Identity
13:50 – 18:58 The Rise of Muscovy
18:58 – 23:06 Comparison and Conclusions

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