Roman Szporluk lectures at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s Polish and European Studies Center

Roman Szporluk, professor of Ukrainian history emeritus at Harvard University and professor emeritus of history at the University of Michigan

Roman Szporluk, distinguished historian and author, lectured on December 13 at the Kyiv-Mohyla Polish and European Studies Center on the topic “Schematics of Ukrainian History of the XIX-XX Centuries and the Issue of a Rational Approach to Modern History of Eastern Europe”. The lecture presented the concepts raised in his upcoming book, "The Making of Modern Ukraine: An Inter-National History", and its focus on the international dimension of Ukrainian history. Professor Szporluk highlighted the critical need to rethink the history of Ukraine from the XVIII century to 1914.

Roman Szporluk is professor of Ukrainian history emeritus at Harvard University and professor emeritus of history at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on modern Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish history, and on Marxism and nationalism in Eastern Europe. He is the author of The Political Thought of T.G. Masaryk (1981), Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List (1988), which was published also in Ukraine in 1998; Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, and most recently U poshukakh maibutnioho chasu (2010). His articles include "Lenin, 'Great Russia,' and Ukraine," Harvard Ukrainian Studies, "Mapping Ukraine: From Identity Space to Decision Space," Journal of Ukrainian Studies, and "The Making of modern Ukraine: The Western Dimension," in A Laboratory of Transnational History, edited by G. Kasianov and P. Ther (2009).