Join us for a book panel to mark the publication of Dimitar Bechev's monograph Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe (Yale University Press). Participants: Graeme Robertson (Professor, Political Science, UNC), Robert Jenkins (Teaching Associate Professor, Political Science, UNC), and Dimitar Bechev (CSEEES … Read more
The year 1968 was a momentous one in many spots on the globe, perhaps no more so than in Poland and Czechoslovakia. With a few exceptions, however, 1968 and its aftermath in these two countries largely have been studied in … Read more
Virginia Olmsted McGraw (PhD Candidate, History) will discuss the first chapter of her dissertation: “Soviet by Design: Fashion, Consumption, and International Competition, 1948-1980”. The chapter examines the origins of the All-Union House of Design, the chief state institution of fashion … Read more
Throughout the Cold War, policy-makers in the United States and its allies crafted strategy with one principal audience in mind: the Warsaw Pact, particularly the Soviet Union. This new book project by Dr. Simon Miles tests whether the strategic concepts … Read more
More than any other Soviet-Polish investment project of the 1970s, the giant steel mill Huta Katowice was an attempt to transform international socialist economic development and bind the 'fraternal nations' together. At the forested outskirts of Dąbrowa Górnicza, a city … Read more
Dakota Irvin will discuss a chapter of his dissertation, which looks at the febrile experience of state building on the local level during the Russian Civil War. The chapter examines attempts by anti-Bolshevik forces (Whites) in Ekaterinburg to reconstruct a … Read more
