Lecture by Timothy Snyder: "Europe after 1914: Integrations and Disintegrations”

Visual Culture Research Center and Hromadske International invites you to the lecture of Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University). American historian and publicist Timothy Snyder is one of the major researchers of Central and Eastern European history, as well as the Holocaust. In his lecture “Europe after 1914: Integrations and Disintegrations” Timothy Snyder will consider historical origins of the 2013 - 14 Ukrainian crisis.
Lecture will be broadcasted in English: 18:00 Kyiv, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET, 11:00 AM ET, Saturday October 18
In Ukrainian: Hromadske.TV
Timothy Snyder: “Contemporary European history can be understood as a series of integrations and disintegrations, continuing before our eyes in the present day. 1914 was not the end of an old Europe, but the continuation of a process of decolonization within Europe itself. 1939 was not a collapse of civilization, but the crowning moment of Soviet and Nazi attempts to colonize Europe from within. The project of European integration known as the EU succeeded as traditional maritime colonialism failed. The revolutions of 1989 allowed European states with different histories of colonialism and decolonialism to join in a single project. Today the EU stands challenged by a deliberate policy of disintegration known as Eurasia; as so many times before, Ukraine is in the middle”.
Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University, author of numerous works in Central and Eastern European history. He writes for International Herald Tribune, New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Eurozine and other periodicals. His books Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke, and Ukrainian History, Russian Politics, European Future were published in Ukrainian. In 2014 Timothy Snyder has written numerous polemical texts about political and military crisis in Ukraine.
Vasyl Cherepanyn, head of Visual Culture Research Center, will make an introductory speech and will also moderate a discussion with the participation of Timothy Snyder.

[@meredithpottery]

Thank you, once again for a brilliant analysis of a very complicated history and current disaster.

[@user-ip6mv3hy3c]

Thanks a lot! Especially from Donetsk ukrainian one (me). It was very interesting!

[@HotPinkst17]

It is so good to hear an intelligent educated voice suggest that the peoples that fought for freedom in WW1 are still, and have remained since 1914 in the fight for there lives, liberties, and a nation with room for their own pursuit of a happiness.

[@Asehpe]

@dana black: no, truth.

[@HotPinkst17]

The West has the best solution to the problems of 'the Eurasian' project: the truth. Russian people continually benefit from the sharing of ideas and technology from the West and when given the chance, come west in large numbers. Not only do significant numbers of the people on Russian borders prefer not to be invaded, subsumed, or colonized by Russia; Russia's neighbors maintain a special enhanced awareness of the defense of their nation as the Russian war machine casts about for another chance at expansionism. The Russian people themselves however would just prefer to be educated and travel the world in free prosperity.

[@delicieuxavecalexa]

What kind of argument is that - "Russia presents it's oponents as fashists or choses historical models differently"? This guy prefers to talk only about points which benefit his own side. And yeah, kudos for telling the truth, all this isn't about Ukraine. It's all about EU intergrating Ukraine, like Italy or Germany were trying to integrate somebody, but were integrated themselves. Allways wondered about this anglo-saxon manner to tell only about "white chess". I see it as "If you're not clever enough to see the other part of the story - very bad... for you.." P.S. Thanks for inviting and presenting this man to us. One of very few real modern historians who has something to say.

[@rubenjames7345]

The main speaker was almost as untelligable as the guy who introduced him.