Join the conversation with Erik Scott — University of Kansas history professor and author of the book Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World —and the director of the Davis Center's Cold War Studies Project, Mark Kramer.
Giorgi Badridze, Georgia’s former ambassador to the UK, will address the impact the war against Ukraine has had on Georgia’s relations with the European Union and Russia.
The interview excerpts and analysis in this new book provide a necessary corrective to stereotypical or oversimplified presentations of Russia in the 1990s, arguing for a more sophisticated look at the country and its enduring role in the geopolitics, economics, and culture of our evolving world.
From the 1950s through the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States made extensive efforts to win "hearts and minds" in the newly independent countries of Africa and Asia. The speakers draw on recently declassified archival documents to trace U.S. and Soviet public diplomacy activities, especially educational exchanges, to build influence in Africa.
