{"id":1235,"date":"2022-04-20T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2022-04-27T01:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:08:39","slug":"himka-on-ukrainian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2022\/04\/20\/himka-on-ukrainian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Himka on Ukrainian history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to briefly summarize Ukrainian history &#8212; the best books on the topic clock in at 432 pages (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gates-Europe-History-Ukraine\/dp\/0465094864\">Plokhy&#8217;s<\/a>) and 896 pages (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ukraine-Illustrated-History-Magocsi-P\/dp\/0295987235https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/History-Ukraine-Land-Its-Peoples-dp-1442610212\/dp\/1442610212\/ref=dp_ob_title_bk\">Magocsi&#8217;s<\/a>) respectively &#8212; but John-Paul Himka has done that in <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org\/2022\/04\/13\/ten-turning-points-a-brief-history-of-ukraine\/\">10 &#8220;turning points<\/a>&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org\/\">Ukraine Solidarity Campaign<\/a>, a web site that is in some ways very kindred to UKR-TAZ. HImka&#8217;s piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org\/2022\/03\/19\/ukraines-socialist-heritage\/\">Ukraine&#8217;s socialist heritage<\/a> also fills in some of the blanks on that side of Ukrainian history (and shows how the worst thing that ever happened to socialism was Stalin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to briefly summarize Ukrainian history &#8212; the best books on the topic clock in at 432 pages (Plokhy&#8217;s) and 896 pages (Magocsi&#8217;s) respectively &#8212; but John-Paul Himka has done that in 10 &#8220;turning points&#8221; at Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, a web site that is in some ways very kindred to UKR-TAZ. HImka&#8217;s piece on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103267,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdPO21-jV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}