With the dissolution of the Soviet Union came rapid societal shifts. In Georgia, people called for the end of the Russification of their country and their culture.
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Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new documentary sees three generations of women speak about wounds and healing.
Nikita Kruschev’s attempts to liberalise the leadership of the Soviet Union was ousted by his political rivals on October 14 1964.
Putin’s worldview echoes Russian phrase, ‘Who is not with us, is against us.’
Vladimir Putin’s propaganda about the Russian invasion of Ukraine reflect themes once propagated by Vladimir Lenin.
A monumental book, newly translated into English, describes in painstaking, archeological detail, how the socialist project transformed the spaces in which Soviet citizens lived.
Lack of control over its borders and corruption are two of the issues that could complicate Moldova’s bid to join the EU.
Interviews with Russian men found most no longer see military service as a marker of masculinity.
A scholar of Russia’s legal code explains the case against the Wall Street Journal reporter accused of espionage.
Opposing the Russian president appears as dangerous in today’s Russia as back in the days of the Stalin purges and show trials.
Renewed fighting in the South Caucasus has some wondering, “Where are the great powers?”
A year into the war in Ukraine, a historian reflects on how it has affected the geopolitical environment.
Despite hopes of a second referendum on independence being dashed, many Scottish nationalists look to Slovakia as an example of how a small nation can stand on its own.
The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union brought tributes, largely from the west. But his real legacy has been misunderstood.
People understand the world through the stories they are told and tell, a historian writes. In the case of the war in Ukraine, narratives can create problems.
A historian looks back at the success – and failure – of mass mobilization efforts by Russia and the Soviet Union.
The new discovery echoes a mission in 1931, when a five-day zeppelin flight sent robots to the stratosphere and redrew the maps of the high Arctic.
Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91 on Aug. 30, 2022. A historian of the Soviet era assesses his impact and the consequences of his failed attempts to reform state socialism.
In much of eastern Europe historical memory of communist rule has been brought into sharp focus by the war in Ukraine.
During the Cold War, Russia’s refusal to allow Jews to leave the country reflected its political aims. The same is likely true today, a Jewish studies scholar explains.
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath
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Professor of Russian History, American University
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Reader in International Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of International Service, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Dance, Environmental Studies and Education Studies, Wesleyan University
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Russian and East European Studies, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Drake University
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Professor of Russian and East European Politics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Political Theory, University of Birmingham
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Fellow in Politics, University of Oxford
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Visiting Lecturer in Sociology, Edinburgh Napier University
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