Course OUR WAR AND OUR VICTORY
Course objective:
The course is devoted to the hermeneutical interpretation of the ongoing Moscow-Ukraine war, launched by the Kremlin in 2014.
“A nation enslaved by a foreign power can achieve true and lasting liberation only by its own struggle, by exerting all its strength in a life-and-death struggle… Even the best opportunities and willingness to help will be useless if the nation itself does not fight and forge its own destiny through its own struggle.”
- Duration: 7 lectures
- Price: 2300 UAH.
2014 was a black year for Ukraine. The war, which began with the occupation of Crimea and the seizure of part of Donbas by Russia, has changed our country forever.
2022. The world is on the verge of a new world order. The Russian horde set foot on our land again, bringing death, destruction and horror.
Why did this happen? How did we get to this point? What should we do next? Do we really understand the root causes of the Moscow-Ukraine war? Can we clearly outline the path to a victorious peace?
War is not only a battle of weapons, but also a battle of ideas, values, and cultures. It requires not only physical strength, but also understanding and deep analysis. After all, Russia has been oppressing Ukrainians for centuries, trying to erase our identity, destroy our culture, and subjugate our people. Russia’s imperial ambitions have always threatened Ukrainian freedom. From the time of the Moscow Tsardom to the Soviet occupation, Ukrainians have constantly fought for their right to self-determination. Holodomors, repressions, and Russification are all methods used by Russia to destroy the Ukrainian people. Ukrainians did not give up. But history repeats itself again and again….
Our course offers you to plunge into the depths of hermeneutical interpretation of the ongoing Moscow-Ukraine war, to understand its causes, and to get rid of its consequences forever. And to analyze the prospects for a victorious peace.
ABOUT THE COURSE
The students are offered an understanding of the causes of the Moscow-Ukraine war, as well as an interpretation of the prospects for a victorious peace.
The course is devoted to the hermeneutical interpretation of the ongoing Moscow-Ukraine war, which was launched by the Kremlin in 2014.This is a topic that requires an interdisciplinary approach – the integration of nationalist hermeneutics and cultural studies, national history, historiosophy, ethnopsychology, political science, and the theory of ideas.
Despite the numerous interpretations of the causes and possible consequences of the war in various national and foreign analytical environments, the existing interpretations often lack comprehensiveness, academicism, and a Ukraine-centered approach. The course offers a Ukrainian hermeneutical vision of the current military problem from the perspective of Ukrainian national interests.
Students are encouraged to understand the main causes of the Moscow-Ukraine war, as well as to interpret the prospects for a victorious peace.
A number of related phenomena are interpreted: Moscow imperialism, the regime of internal occupation, the ideology of Putinism, the ideology of neoliberalism, geopolitical strategies, neocolony, nation-state, national idea, minimum and maximum victory over the Muscovites.
The main goal of the course is to provide students with an understanding of the principles of hermeneutical interpretation of the current Moscow-Ukraine war, its causes and options for a victorious outcome for Ukraine.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The main goal of the course is to provide students with an understanding of the principles of hermeneutical interpretation of the current Moscow-Ukraine war, its causes and options for a victorious outcome for Ukraine.
THIS COURSE WILL BE USEFUL:
- To the general public who wants to better understand this war.
- Undergraduate and graduate students studying history, political science, philosophy,
- Anyone interested in geopolitics and international relations.
- To the Ukrainian military and volunteers.
- Civil servants and diplomats.
- Media representatives and civic activists.
- To all those who want not only to know the facts, but also to understand the deeper meanings, who want to see the future of Ukraine clearly, who are ready to fight for their freedom and victory, and who believe in the strength and unity of the Ukrainian people.
THIS COURSE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO
- Analyze information critically and impartially.
- Identify cause-and-effect relationships and underlying motives.
- Formulate their own judgments and argue their position.
- Three main reasons for the Moscow-Ukraine war.
- Understand the main components of the Ukrainian victory over the occupiers.
- Understand the phenomenon of Moscow imperialism, its theoretical foundations and genesis.
- Understand the ethnopsychology of the Muscovite.
- Understand the structures of Putin’s ideology.
- Be able to outline the structure of the Moscow regime of internal occupation.
- Understand the main geopolitical strategies of the West.
- The basic ideas of neoliberalism.
- Understand the phenomenon of neocolonial statehood.
- Be able to outline the systemic nature of the pre-war weakness of the state of Ukraine.
- I can name a maximum and minimum plan for Ukraine’s external victory.
- To understand the inner meaning of the victory of Ukrainians.
- Know the ideological and political advantages of the nation state.
- To know the main preventive measures against a possible recurrence of aggression against Ukraine.
- To understand the meaning of the nation state and the Ukrainian idea.
- Identify ways to defeat the Moscow monster
Lecturer:
Petro Ivanyshyn
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Literature and Literary Theory at Drohobych State Pedagogical University. І. Frank.
Ukrainian literary scholar, hermeneuticist, publicist, nationalism theorist, and cultural critic.
He is the author of 300 scientific papers, including 16 single monographic studies.
Content of the discipline:
Propaedeutics. The first cause of the war was imperial Muscovy.
- The Phenomenon of Moscow Imperialism: History and Theory.
- The regime of internal occupation as an unchanging system of Muscovite power.
- The ethnopsychology of the Muscovite: Ugrophin, Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Western perspectives.
- Putinism’s ideology: neo-Eurasianism, national Bolshevism, neoliberalism.
- Historiosophical Myths and Moscow’s Geopolitical Plates: World Domination and the Absorption of Ukraine.
The second reason for the war: an uncertain West.
The West as a collective cultural and political concept, its structure (types of states, interstate unions and blocs).
- Geopolitical strategies of the West.
- The elites of the West.
- The main political ideologies of the West are conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and nationalism. Hybrid ideological types. The problem of neoliberalism.
- Different perceptions and interpretations of Ukraine’s role.
The third reason for the war: a weakened Ukraine.
Ukraine as a cosmopolitan neocolonial state. The weakness of neocolonies.
- Lack of a unifying ideology of state-building. Lack of a national idea. Atomized society.
- Ukraine’s systemic weaknesses: political, economic, cultural, and military.
- Foreign policy weakness: lack of reliable allies.
- Predictions and warnings about the threat to statehood (L. Kostenko, V. Ivanyshyn, P. Skunts, B. Oliynyk, J. Mace, O. Romanchuk, etc.).
The external dimension of the Ukrainian victory: the neutralization of the Moscow empire.
Minimum plan: de-occupation.
- The maximum plan: the division of Muscovy.
- New Historosophy and the Geopolitics of Ukraine: The Eastern Vector.
The internal dimension of Ukraine’s victory: strengthening statehood.
- The nation-state as an alternative to a neocolony or empire, its advantages.
- Nationalism (the ideology of the national idea), its advantages over imperialism and cosmopolitanism. The highest values: God, Motherland, Freedom.
- The role of culture, literature, history, and language in strengthening the state. Cultural nationalism.
- A new nationally oriented political system: national democracy (V. Ivanyshyn).
- Never again. The main national and state safeguards against national catastrophes are: a national-centered ideology of state-building; a national system of government (nationalocracy); a strong economy, culture, science, education, army; and reliable allies.
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"OUR WAR AND OUR VICTORY"
Duration: 7 lectures
Price: 2300 UAH.
Teacher: Petro Ivanyshyn
