The current downturn in Russia’s relationship with the West has prompted Russian officials and scholars to openly call for "new rules” for global politics.
Posts tagged as “Soviet Union”
Please join us for a talk with Sophie Pinkham about her new book, Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine (Norton, 2016). From W. W. Norton & Co: A distinctive writer’s fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region. Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse,…
Please join us for a talk with Radoslav A. Yordanov, a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute, about his book The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa During the Cold War (Lexington Books, 2016). Professors Rajan Menon (CCNY/CUNY, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University) and Tarik Cyril Amar (Columbia University) will serve as…
Please join us for a talk with Olesya Turkina, Senior Research Fellow at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, about her book Soviet Space Dogs (FUEL Design & Publishing, 2014). Soviet Space dogs were part of Soviet propaganda, perhaps even one of its most demonstrative forms. Unlike Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit the Earth, Laika, Belka and Strelka…