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Understanding Ukrainian History

Three-part Lecture Series by Professor Serhii Plokhii

The Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies hosted Professor Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, for a three-part lecture series “Understanding Ukrainian History” which forms an introductory module to this year’s Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia.

The series of three lectures, respectively titled “The Rise of Modern Ukraine,” “The Making of Soviet Ukraine,” and “The Fall of the USSR,” shed light on the formation of modern Ukrainian identity through competing imperial and national projects from the Napoleonic Wars to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In English

History of Russian Foreign Policy

Four-part Lecture Series by Professor Andrei Tsygankov

The Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies hosted Professor Andrei Tsygankov, of the departments of Political Science and International Relations at San Francisco State University, for a four-part lecture series “History of Russian Foreign Policy” which forms an introductory module to this year’s Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia.

In Russian