Insights

A mural from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, raised our spirits as the pandemic began to disrupt normal life.

The importance of conflict system mapping cannot be understated.

As political unrest broke out in Georgia last year, Ia Tserodze was frustrated that she could not fulfill her desire to be an active citizen from abroad. Here’s what she did about it.

Newly digitized photographs from the Davis Center Library's collection provide a stunning visual record of life in postwar Soviet Union.

The new Scholar-Entrepreneur Initiative strives to foster innovative scholarship and learning while bringing regional studies closer to practice.

The so-called emancipation of Central Asia’s women, whom Vladimir Lenin saw as the “most enslaved of the enslaved,” became a central pillar of the Soviet effort in the region.

"And all of a sudden the door is kicked open in the classroom; this student runs in and he basically says in Ukrainian, 'University has been taken over, classes are suspended, revolution is coming.'"

"There was a Soviet famine...but within that broader story there is something specific about what happens in Ukraine and it seems to be because of Stalin's particular phobia of what's going on there."

To think as he did, that he could democratize the Soviet Union...to believe that he might be able to create a market economy...to believe all of these things required a tremendous amount of optimism.