Events

The West and the Soviet bloc, despite their ideological differences, confronted a common set of economic shocks. The response to these shocks created a new international political economy that magnified U.S. power in unexpected ways and fractured the Soviet bloc.

Join us for our speaker series, "Russia: In Search of a New Paradigm—Conversations With Yevgenia Albats," featuring Peter Pomerantsev and Nina L. Khruscheva.

 In this workshop, participants will consider new ways of teaching about Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia through the use of maps, data, oral histories and more.  

 It will cover the origins of the major international human rights regimes that emerged after WWII and how the Cold War affected their implementation.

In Guram Odisharia's novel "The President's Cat," the vibrant character Mikheil Bghazhba takes center stage.

Olena Nikolayenko discusses the various motivations and manifestations of women's participation in revolution as featured in her newly-published book. 

Join us for a two-part webinar series on Genocide Education. 

In their new book Indulging Kleptocracy, John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec, and Tom Mayne offer an engaging inside account of the fight against kleptocracy in the UK.

Declassified archival materials from the United States and the former Soviet Union confirm memoir accounts of U.S. covert operations in Soviet Ukraine in the first several years after World War II. The seminar will explore what is now known about these operations, which proved unsuccessful.

Join a discussion on Western academia's perpetuation of historical, cultural, and political frameworks rooted in Cold War-era Sovietology. This talk will focus on the case of Belarus. 

Eugene Ostashevsky will offer a personal take on questions of translation, immigration, and language by discussing poems on the siege of Leningrad from his latest collection.

Join us for our upcoming Spring semester webinar series for educators devoted to using primary sources in the classroom. 
 

 This conversation with recently released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza has been rescheduled for spring.

Through a comparative analysis of the 1944 pronatalist Family Law and Putin’s pronatalist measures, this talk attempts to identify both constant and shifting choices as well as forces that affect the politics of reproduction today. In addition to policymakers, the talk will address the roles of women, doctors, and the Russian Orthodox Church.

A new book offers a multidisciplinary examination of international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine war and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation.

The study examines the alienation of femininity as depicted in Russian street posters from before and shortly after Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine.

Sergey Radchenko's book provides a lengthy analysis of the evolution of Soviet foreign policy after 1945.

Kevin Platt presents his new book, Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders.

Join us for a two-part webinar series on Genocide Education. 

Russian language competition for high school students. 

This workshop will focus on understanding the origin, purpose, content, and value of various textual and visual primary sources.

Join us for our upcoming Spring semester webinar series for educators devoted to using primary sources in the classroom.