ONLINE PROGRAM THROUGH ZOOM

Hamilton Street Club presents - A Brief History of Modern Ukraine 1900-2020

Chris Boicos, professor of art history for the University of Southern California Paris program and founder (2007) and main lecturer for Paris Art Studies

On Wednesday, May 25 at 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Zoom The Hamilton Street Club will host French art historian, Christophe Boicos, for a riviting history of Modern Ukraine. The object of his lecture is to provide us with some of the key elements — national, political and cultural — of modern Ukrainian history that can serve as a background for understanding the current conflict.

Ukraine has always been a fascinating and turbulent crossroads of peoples, religions, cultures and empires since ancient times. Since the Middle Ages, Ukrainians, Russians, Tartars, Poles, Cossacks Ottomans and among religions, the Orthodox, Uniate, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim, have collided, but also fused, in the territories covered by the modern state born after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

We will outline the evolution of Ukraine from the late Tsarist period (1900-1914) through the travails of World War, Revolution and Civil War (1914-1921), the regimes of Lenin and Stalin (1921-1954) - with the dramatic episodes of the Great Famine, “Holodomor” (1932-33) and the destructions, massacres and privations of WWII (1941-44) - the late Soviet period (1954-1991) to the emergence of an independent, Ukraine (1991) and the two democratic revolutions – “Orange” (2004) and “Maidan” (2014) – that Vladimir Putin considers an existential threat to his concept of a totalitarian Russia.

ASG members, subscribers and guests are invited to attend at the rate of $16 per person.