Jeff Jones is an associate professor of Russian-Soviet and contemporary world history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His book, Everyday Life and the ‘Reconstruction’ of Soviet Russia During and After the Great Patriotic War, 1943-1948, was published … Read more
Political scientists studying authoritarian regimes have focused on how dictators exercise top down control and how they dominate, intimidate and buy-off their citizens. While certainly much of authoritarianism can be captured in this image, the reality is that many contemporary … Read more
The Götterdämmerung of Ukraїnophilia: Dmytro Dontsov, Ukrainian Nationalism, and the Entangled Eastern Front, 1914-1921 The First World War transformed the borderlands of the Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman Empires into a shatter zone of national and social revolutions, and failed … Read more
What impact did the imperial context have on the intellectual elites of Eastern Europe of the last 200 years? How did the social and intellectual phenomenon of intelligentsia influence the history of the Russian Empire from the end of the … Read more
This event has been rescheduled for Fall 2016. Beth Holmgren (Duke University) will present on "Rebeka Does the Tango: The Jewishness of Interwar Polish Popular Culture." ‣ About the speaker Beth Holmgren is Professor of Russian and Polish Cultures … Read more
