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Mark Vincent, "Criminal Subculture in the Gulag...
Vincent draws on Gulag journals, song collections, tattoo drawings and dictionaries of slang, to explore the lives of the recidivist criminals and criminal gangs that originated in the Gulag under Stalin....
47 min
727
Julia Obertreis, "Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotto...
Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of cotton agriculture and irrigation in Soviet Central Asia...
43 min
728
Laura A. Dean, "Diffusing Human Trafficking Pol...
Dean analyzes the development and effectiveness of anti-trafficking policies and institutions in Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine...
61 min
729
Catherine Belton, "Putin's People: How the KGB ...
The Russian state is back.
34 min
730
Paul D’Anieri, "Ukraine and Russia: From Civili...
D'Anieri documents in a nuanced way the development of the current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine...
46 min
731
Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...
34 min
732
Martina Cvajner, "Soviet Signoras: Personal and...
Cvajner focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy...
47 min
733
Alexander Gendler, "Khurbm 1914-1922: Prelude t...
Gendler offers an extensive collection of eye-witness testimonies and official communications revealing the genocidal destruction of Jewish life by the Russian army during World War I....
67 min
734
Stanislav Kulchytsky, "The Famine of 1932-1933 ...
Kulchytsky presents a meticulous research that unveils the mechanism of the Holodomor as a man-made famine...
96 min
735
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
736
Roxann Prazniak, "Sudden Appearances: The Mongo...
The “Mongol turn” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries forged new political, commercial, and religious circumstances in Eurasia.
64 min
737
Eric Lee, "The Night of the Bayonets: The Texel...
Lee tells the story of the events leading up to the little-known revolt of Georgian Wehrmacht recruits against the Germans on the island of Texel, which was part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications off the Dutch coast...
50 min
738
Andrei Kushnir, "Epic Journey: Life and Times o...
Wasyl Kushnir goes back to the second half of the 19th century and takes the reader to the present moment: the story provides a glimpse into a family that seems to be shaped by all the atrocities of the 20th century...
48 min
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Alexander Bukh, "These Islands Are Ours" (Stanf...
Bukh provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia...
77 min
740
Coryne Hall, "Queen Victoria and the Romanovs: ...
The balance of power in nineteenth-century Europe was anchored on one end by the redoubtable Queen Victoria (1819 -1901), the doyenne of sovereigns, and at the opposite end by the autocratic Romanov dynasty...
39 min
741
Iva Glisic, "The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, P...
Glisic demonstrates that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality...
60 min
742
Anne Lounsbery, "Life is Elsewhere: Symbolic Ge...
Lounsbery investigates the long-standing trope of the “provinces” – an imaginary space of static non-modernity where time stands still and where residents nurse an inferiority complex...
68 min
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Brendan McGeever, "Antisemitism and the Russian...
McGeever examines Bolshevik and Jewish communists' attempts to confront antisemitism, including within the revolutionary movement itself...
47 min
744
Tatiana Linkhoeva, "Revolution Goes East: Imper...
As Russia’s 1917 October Revolution distended itself across north Asia and reverberated globally, socialism acted – not unlike today’s pandemic – as a Rorschach test revealing divisions in societies and politics, and to some offering cautious hope for a new world which might be constructed in the aftermath...
63 min
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Andrew Monaghan, "Dealing with the Russians" (P...
Monaghan argues that Western policy makers are using an outdated Cold War model of ideology, language and institutions, which is wholly unsuited for understanding, engaging, and countering where necessary Russia in the 21st century...
35 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Danielle Ross, "Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims a...
Danielle Ross looks at how the Tatars of Kazan participated in the formation of the Russian empire through their various activities in trade, settlement, clerical work, intellectual culture, and trade...
68 min
748
Karl Qualls, "Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish...
Qualls examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War...
57 min
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Maya K. Peterson, "Pipe Dreams: Water and Empir...
The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,..
54 min
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Alexander Watson, "The Fortress: The Siege of P...
Almost unknown in the West, this siege of Przemysl was one of the great turning points of the First World War...
50 min