Ukrainian Studies

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA268. The Cossacks! Fall 2024


Khmelnytsky

Class meets on Wednesdays from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM


Instructor:Maxim Tarnawsky121 St. Joseph St. Alumni Hall 403
maxim.tarnawsky@utoronto.ca 416–978–8972

Course Schedule


Schedule of Class Meetings
Week Date Topic Assigned Reading
Week 1. Wed Sept 4 Introduction. History, Myth, Fiction. Visual images
Week 2. Wed Sept 11The Ukrainian Cossacks Paul Robert Magocsi. A History of Ukraine. Chapters 14–24. pp. 170–302 (1st ed.) or 177–306 (2nd ed.).
Week 3. Wed Sept 18 Folklore. Neoclassicism Ukrainian Dumy and The Aeneid, excerpt.
Week 4. Wed Sept 25Nikolai Gogol Niolai Gogol, Taras Bulba.
Week 5. Wed Oct 2 Taras Shevchenko. Nikolai Gogol
Assignment 1 due.
Taras Shevchenko. "The Haidamaks," Poems,
Gogol. "A Terrible Vengeance"
Week 6. Wed Oct 9 A Jewish View of KhmelnytskySholom Ash. Kiddush Ha-Shem
Week 7. Wed Oct 16 A Polish View of Khmelnytsky Henryk Sienkiewicz. With Fire and Sword. This is a VERY long novel. The chapters you MUST read are these: 1–4, 6, 8–23, and 26–36.
Week 8. Wed Oct 23Cossacks and Nationbuilding Panteleimon Kulish. The Black Council.
Oct 30No Class! November pause!
Week 9. Wed Nov 6 Hetman Ivan Mazepa Lord Gordon George Byron, "Mazeppa"
Alexander Pushkin, "Poltava"
Victor Hugo, "Mazeppa", in French. If you can read French, please have a look.
Week 10. Wed Nov 13 Don Cossacks, servants or enemies of the empire?
Assignment 2 due.
Leo Tolstoy. The Cossacks
Alexander Pushkin, "The Captain's Daughter"
Week 11. Wed Nov 20Bolsheviks, Jews, and Don Cossacks as modern soldiers Isaac Babel. Red Cavalry
Week 12. Wed Nov 27View this film at home Mamay. This film is part of the course requirements.
In class exam.
Mamay
You're writing your papers!


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