Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University
What accounts for the divide between the maritime states and the countries of mainland Asia? A discussion on China’s Belt and Road Initiative from this broader perspective.
Drawing on archival sources and memoirs from Russia and Austria, the speakers will review many aspects of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955.
This conference aims to further complicate conventionally held ideas about the late Soviet Union by looking at how exactly the post-Stalinist environment informed social practices and individual lives.
