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Posts tagged as “Soviet Union”

Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine

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,…

The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa During the Cold War

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…

Soviet Space Dogs

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…