Join us for a conversation with Tymofii Brik, Rector and Vice President for International Relations at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). Dr. Brik joined the KSE team as an associate professor and the head of KSE Institute’s Center for … Read more
Matt McGarry is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the UNC Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. His research focuses on the problem of realism in history and literature in Russian prose and poetry. Building on the work of … Read more
Contrary to the general assumptions – corroborated mainly by rapidly circulating images of “the fall” of the Berlin Wall – in many countries of Eastern Europe the transition from socialism to capitalism lacked strong performances of defacing, disgracing and toppling … Read more
Join us for a presentation and discussion with the authors Sam Greene and Graeme Robertson of their book "Putin v. the People The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia" (Yale University Press, 2019). About the book What do ordinary Russians … Read more
Fiume, a major Adriatic port city controlled by Habsburg Hungary until 1918 and thereafter left rogue until 1921, presents a fascinating case of how post-Habsburg states could and did employ prior imperial models to navigate the trials and opportunities of … Read more
Join the author Mitchell Orenstein for a discussion of his book "The Lands in Between. Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War" (Oxford UP, 2019). Orenstein is Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies … Read more
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, emigration and industrialization served as the main developmental “solutions.” This presentation investigates how socialists, ethno-nationalists, and international organizations dramatized the tension between emigration and industrialization on a global scale as the distinction emerged … Read more
This talk will address the east-central European origins of development concepts that came to dominate the postwar world. Treating social science as a situated phenomenon, shaped by the twentieth century’s violent politics, Dr. Mazurek aims to explain why and how … Read more
For millions of Habsburg citizens, civilians and soldiers alike, the First World War was a war of both mobility and captivity. While soldiers were notoriously paralyzed in trenches on the Western front, the armies of the Central Powers and the Russian … Read more
Popular elections in Russia have often been replaced by some forms of indirect elections or appointments at both regional and municipal level. Scholars have studied various effects such institutional changes have on the characteristics of political leaders. Guzel Garifullina builds … Read more
