![]() ![]() Rudnyts'ky, "Ukrainians in Galicia under Habsburg Rule"Īmelia Glaser, "Between Nation and Class: Nataliya Kobrynska's Jewish Characters," in Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony Polonsky, eds., Polin, vol. The video is here and the podcast version is here or here. The liberal and increasingly democratic character of Habsburg rule created a special incubator for Ukrainian politics and culture. The modern Ukrainian movement, which began in the Russian Empire, continued, after Russian imperial oppression, in Habsburg lands. (The Ukrainian name is “Halychyna,” which has an ancient source.) The eastern part of these territories was inhabited by speakers of Ukrainian (and Polish and Yiddish and other languages) over the course of the nineteenth century, and especially at its end, it became very important that they were ruled from Vienna rather than from Petersburg. The name “Galicia” like so many other things was actually a Habsburg invention it just designated with slightly spurious Latinate grace the lands Vienna took from Poland. This lecture summarizes their history before the partitions of Poland in the late eighteenth century that brought Galicia under Habsburg power. The Habsburgs ruled the original empire on which the sun never set, and were arguably the most important family in modern European history. ![]() The Habsburg monarchy (Austria) comes late to Ukrainian history, but with a fascinating legacy, and an important contribution. ![]()
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