# Power, Politics and Nationhood

- Institution: Gresham College
- Taught by: Professor Sir Richard Evans, Professor Thomas Grant KC, Professor Sir Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE, Professor Jolyon Mitchell
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Law, History, Religion
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/power-politics)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

How can we understand the war in Ukraine in the light of European history over the past century? Is Putin a '20th-century Hitler' as some have called him? What are his aims, and how do they compare with those of the Nazis during the Second World War? Why are the Ukrainians resisting the Russian invasion so fiercely? This lecture attempts to explain the nature of the current conflict by setting it in its historical and geopolitical context.

## Lectures

1. [War and Peace in Europe from Hitler to Putin](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-power-politics/6e003f0b5a54) (YouTube)
2. [Opposition in Russia: The Trials of Alexei Navalny](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-power-politics/1526a095e71c) (YouTube)
3. [The Irish Question and the Ulster Question Then and Now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-power-politics/43bd6556160b) (YouTube)
4. [The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-power-politics/9e23c0ee51d4) (YouTube)