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11/24/19
Russian Victories in the Post-Cold War Era
by Albert M. Camarillo
Putin’s Russia is winning battles to destabilize the U.S. that former USSR leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev had tried but failed.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/16/19
The impeachment hearings are a battle between oligarchy and democracy
by Heather Cox Richardson
Ukraine’s leaders were accustomed to wielding power by prosecuting their political opponents for corruption, and Yovanovitch’s push to end that practice earned their ire.
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SOURCE: NY Times
11/11/19
Russian Historian Professor, Found With Bag of Severed Arms, Admits He Killed Student
Oleg Sokolov, a Russian historian who made a career studying and impersonating Napoleon Bonaparte, liked to be called “Sire.” He also had a long history of seducing and being violent toward female students at a prestigious university.
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SOURCE: Politico
10/26/19
Russia’s Long and Mostly Unsuccessful History of Election Interference
by Casey Michel
Trump’s willingness to allow foreign governments to influence American elections is historically unprecedented. Just how unprecedented becomes clear when you look back at the long history of attempts by foreign powers (almost always Russia) to tip an outcome to their advantage.
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SOURCE: The Crimson
10/11/19
Serhii Plokhii on Ukraine’s Political Frontiers
Professor Serhii Plokhii, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard, discussed Ukranian history, the Trump-Ukraine scandal, and the roles that both Russia and the United States have played in shaping the country’s politics.
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SOURCE: NY Times
September 27, 2019
She's Rising from the Depths of Soviet Music History
by Gabrielle Cornish
Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.”
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9/15/19
Expansion and Motivation: Frontiers and Borders in the Past and Present of the United States and Russia
by Robert W. Thurston
Greg Grandin's The End of the Myth, David McCullough's The Pioneers, and Angela Stent's Putin’s World push us to consider and compare the history of the frontier and borders.
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August 11, 2019
Russian History Gives the United States an Ominous Warning
by Laura Engelstein
What can Russia's tumultuous history teach us about the brevity of stable governments.
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SOURCE: Chris Riback’s Conversations
7/5/19
Explaining Putin’s World: A Conversation with Angela Stent
How is today’s polarized, disrupted world one in which Russia can thrive?
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SOURCE: Greenwich Time
6/5/2019
Russia says D-Day memorials are part of a 'false' history of World War II meant to airbrush out the Soviet Union
Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said the events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France were painting a "false" picture of who was responsible for winning World War II.
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5/19/19
Anton Chekhov: Environmental Prophet for Our Planet
by Walter G. Moss
Like Netflix's documentary Our Planet, the Russian writer often displayed a deep love of nature in his hundreds of stories and plays.
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SOURCE: Time
5/3/19
A Beluga Whale Is Allegedly a Russian Spy. There's a Long History of Marine Mammals in the Military
In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet authorities reportedly trained beluga wales, dolphins, sea lions and fur seals to search for underwater mines and other objects.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/17/19
Russia isn’t the first country to protest Western control over global telecommunications
by Sarah Nelson
As the international community becomes increasingly concerned about misinformation and data breaches, the Russian government has announced plans to test its own, sweeping solution to the problem: disconnecting Russia from the global internet.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/17/19
Why President Trump’s hard-line approach to Cuba is a mistake
by John Ermer
It opens the door to increased Russian influence on the island.
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4/14/19
Is the Western World Declining and Russia Rising?
by Walter G. Moss
Yes, according to Glenn Diesen’s 2018 book The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia. But this isn't the first time scholars have made such a prediction and been wrong.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
Accessed 4/2/19
How the U.S.-Russian Relationship Went Bad
by William J. Burns
An American diplomat tells the inside story of Yeltsin, Putin, and opportunities lost.
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SOURCE: Reuters
3/19/19
Road to Mueller report paved by Watergate, Iran-Contra, Lewinsky, Waco
Here is an explanation of some past investigations and how their findings were made public.
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SOURCE: ABC News
3/8/19
International Women's Day went from bloody revolution to corporate breakfasts
The radical history behind International Women's Day.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/2/19
The Island That Changed History
by Sergey Radchenko
A 1969 border clash between Moscow and Beijing pushed the two apart, and opened the door for Nixon to go to China.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/7/19
A Sparkling Shrine to a Reviled Russian Leader
The torrents of scorn poured on Mr. Yeltsin and his era by the Kremlin’s cheerleaders have given the complex an edgy appeal, helping it attract more than 700,000 visitors since it opened three winters ago.
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