Join us next week for a lecture by Dr. Lisa Wolverton at UNC. Dr. Wolverton will present their talk, New Visions of Medieval Central Europe. Lisa Wolverton is Professor of History, Medieval Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies at the … Read more
Reds in Blue investigates Soviet relations with one of the most prominent international organizations, UNESCO, to present a novel way of thinking about the role of the United Nations in the Soviet experience of the Cold War. Drawing on unused … Read more
Hasia R. Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She has built her scholarly career around the study of American Jewish history, American immigration and ethnic history, and the history of … Read more
When Poland achieved statehood in 1918, there were no automobile factories from the former empires on its territory, roads were paltry or in disrepair from the war, and many private cars had been requisitioned for the war effort anyway. This … Read more
In keeping with her journalistic style of conveying the views of others, the voice of 2015 Nobel Prize winning author Svetlana Alexievich is limited in the oral history she published in 1990 under the Belorussian title Цинковые Мајіьчики or Zinky … Read more
Polish intellectuals played a significant role in shaping the view of the Soviet Union in post-war Europe and the United States. As Stephen Kotkin points out,"Czesław Miłosz lectured at Berkeley with uncanny empathy on Dostoyevsky, Leszek Kołakowski entombed Soviet Marxism … Read more
