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Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, "Turkey, Kemalism and th...
Ter-Matevosyan looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational phases of Kemalism between the 1920s and 1970s...
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing...
Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...
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Mark Galeotti, “The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia”...
"The Vory" traces the development of the Russian underworld
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Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A Histo...
Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...
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John Etty, "Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union:...
John Etty explains how Krokodil magazine provided a venue in which the state, the the magazine’s editors, and readers all participated in defining what it was permissible to laugh at in the USSR...
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Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History...
Sayle examines the history of NATO from its founding in the late 1940s through to its expansion in the post-Cold War era...
50 min
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John J. Curley, "Global Art and the Cold War" (...
A meticulously-researched and accessible monograph, Global Art and the Cold War demonstrates the crucial role of art in the greatest geopolitical conflict of the 20th century...
50 min
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Jeremy Black, "The World at War, 1914-1945" (Ro...
Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....
48 min
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Houri Berberian, "Roving Revolutionaries: Arme...
Houri Berberian uses a transnational or transimperial approach to examine the interconnectedness of 1905 Russian Revolution, the Iranian Revolution and the Young Turk Revolution and the role that Armenian revolutionaries played in each...
53 min
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Nikolai Krementsov, "With and Without Galton: V...
Krementsov provides a fascinating analysis of the vicissitudes of Russian attempts to improve the human species...
79 min
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Henning Pieper, "Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genoci...
The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a dual role: SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front...
53 min
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Kate Brown, "Manuel for Survival: A Chernobyl G...
By digging into recently opened regional archives, conducting dozens of interviews, and visiting sites across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, Brown sought to understand the extent of the damage from the 1986 explosion of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4.
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Eliot Borenstein, "Plots Against Russia: Conspi...
Borenstein discusses popular conspiracy theories such as the Harvard Project and the Dulles Plan, why and how conspiratorial thinking has flourished in post-Soviet Russia
49 min
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Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organ...
What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?
39 min
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Rósa Magnúsdóttir, "Enemy Number One: The Unite...
Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...
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Joan Neuberger, "This Thing of Darkness: Eisens...
What goes into producing a work of historical fiction—especially in a dictatorship where the wrong choice, or even the right choice at the wrong moment, can send the unwitting author to the Gulag?
52 min
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Keith Gave, "The Russian Five: A Story of Espio...
In the late 1980s, Gave was asked by the Detroit Red Wings to reach behind the Iron Curtain and initiate contact with the team's newest draft picks, two players on the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey club...
73 min
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Andrew Sobanet, "Generation Stalin: French Wri...
How did Rolland, and other French leftists, come to celebrate and actively promote the authoritarian regime of Joseph Stalin?
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Alexandre Kojève, "Atheism," trans by Jeff Love...
Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Kojève advances a novel argument about freedom and authority...
75 min
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Nicholas Breyfogle, "Eurasian Environments: Nat...
The focus of the volume is contextualizing and “de-exceptionalizing” Russia and the USSR by placing Russian and Soviet environmental history in a global context...
42 min
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Margaret Peacock, "Innocent Weapons: The Soviet...
Margaret Peacock analyzes the various ways in which images of children were put to use, in Soviet and American Cold War propaganda...
61 min
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Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora ...
Darden, Henshaw, and Szekley investigate the mobilization of female fighters, women’s roles in combat, and what happens to women when conflicts end...
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Hassan Malik, "Bankers and Bolsheviks: Internat...
Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there? The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?
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Michael Cotey Morgan, "The Final Act: The Helsi...
Just when you thought that you knew everything and anything pertaining to the Cold War and the ending of it...
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