Russia & Ukraine

Presentation at Friendly House by Chia Yin Hsu. She provides a picture of the relations between Russia and Ukraine from the Soviet to the post-Soviet era. She traces the trajectory of the Ukrainian national movement from its inception in the 19^th century to the formation of a Ukrainian republic after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Chia Yin Hsu is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University. Her research focuses on Russian and Soviet views of ethnicity and nationality, and on the cultural history of money from the late Imperial to the early Soviet era. She has published in academic journals and is also coeditor of two anthologies of essays on the cultural aspect of economic and monetary history.