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How to Conduct Yourself: Dissident Advice Manuals in Late Soviet Society
2025 Dallin Lecture: The Russo-Ukrainian War through the Eyes of a Historian
A New Iron Curtain? Tensions on the Polish-Ukrainian-Belarusian Border and Its Implications for International Security
We Computers
(Re)militarization of Russian Youth: The Case of Junarmia
The Hard Edge of Soft Power: Cancel-Culture Controversy During the Russian-Ukrainian War
Winter of Terror: The GPU's Mass Operation During the 1932–1933 Holodomor
Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution
"Like It or Don’t Like It, It’s Your Duty, My Beauty": Józef Piłsudski, Vladimir Putin and Their Ideas of Lesser Brotherhood
Baltic Security Challenges: The View from Vilnius
Prestige, Manipulation and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
The Choices and Legacy of Dagestani Leaders of the Russian Civil War: Heroic Narratives and Ethnic Identity in Modern Dagestan
Arno Babadjanian: The Unsung Maestro of Soviet Armenia
Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War
Atoms of Peace at the Time of War: Lessons for the War-torn Ukraine
Europe's Forever War
Feminist Repatriation to Soviet Armenia in 1947? A History of Communist Armenian Women in France
The Helena Brandt Visiting Scholar Program Inaugural Lecture
Russia after Two Years of War: The Move to a New Economic Model?
The War in Ukraine: Year 3
Escalations, Red Lines, Risks, and the Russo-Ukrainian War
War on the Current Global Landscape
The Death of Alexei Navalny: Causes and Consequences
A Soviet Good Neighbor Policy: The Communists in Afghanistan Before 1979
Europe’s New North? Enduring stereotypes in the Nordic and Baltic regions
Socialism as Praxis: "Second World"-"Third World" Relations and the Evolution of the Socialist Model during the Cold War
Language Shift in Time of War: The Abandonment of Russian in Ukraine
Truth Hounds: Prosecuting Atrocity Crimes in Ukraine
Holodomor Commemorative Conference - “Holodomor: 90 Years After” Part 1
Holodomor Commemorative Conference - “Holodomor: 90 Years After” Part 2
The War in Ukraine and the Baltic States
A Roundtable with the Baltic Ambassadors to the U.S.: The Baltic Region, 2023: Opportunities and Challenges
How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our Politics Today
Russia at War: The Inside Politics of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Cosmos, Genome, Superheavies: The Afterlives of Post-Soviet Science
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
Is Democracy Possible in Russia?
This lecture is in Russian
Does History Matter in the Russian-Ukrainian War?
How to Win in Putin’s Propaganda War
Historical Moments and Movements in Ukrainian Art and Film: From Medieval to Contemporary
Voices from Ukraine
Luka Nakhutsrishvili: "Oaths against Dams: Environmental Protests in Contemporary Georgia"
Andrew Kuchins: "Fear and Loathing in Kyrgyzstan: An American Story"
Bathsheba Demuth: "Do Whales Judge Us: Interspecies History and Ethics"
Pauline Jones: "Trust in Religious Leaders & Voluntary Compliance: Social Distancing during COVID-19 in Central Asia"
“I Say It Burns”: Poet/post-rock musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski in Conversation with Cynthia Haven
Yevgenia Albats: "Institutional Persistence: The Role of the Political Police in the USSR and Present Day Russia"
Andrey Kurkov: "From Violence to Vaudeville: How War Has Brought Comedians to Power"
Pey-Yi Chu: "The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science"
Eliot Borenstein: The Annual Alexander Dallin Lecture - "Plots against Russia: The Uses of Conspiracy after the Soviet Collapse"
Bojana Videkanic: "Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetic in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985"
Kathryn Ciancia: "On Civilization's Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World"
Francine Hirsch: "Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after WWII"
Erica Marat: "Technological Solutions for Complex Problems: Emerging Electronic Surveillance Regimes in Eurasia"
Dominique Kirchner Reill: "The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire"
"The Nagorno Karabakh Crisis: Global, Regional and Domestic Perspectives"
Vladislav Zubok: "Reformed to Death: The Strange End of the USSR"
Nikita Petrov: "The Eyes and Ears of the Party: The KGB in the Soviet Political System"
Viktoriya Sereda: "Region, Nation, and Beyond"
Mykola Riabchuk: "Examined by War: New Bonds and Old Cleavages in Post-Maidan Ukrainian Society"
Lilia Shevtsova: "Russia as a Global Challenge"
Lena Jonson: "Art and Protest in Putin's Russia"
Karen Dawisha: "Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? And if so, so what?"
Zoran Amar: "Cinema on the Urban Edge"
Nina Bunjevac: "Fatherland: A Family History"
Michael McFaul: "A New Cold War? Causes and Consequences of Confrontation with Russia"
Volodymyr Dubovyk: "Ukraine: What is the Fight All About?"
"Contextualizing the Holodomor: 80th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933"
Taras Koznarsky: "Shevchenko and His Readers"
Zelimir Zilnik: "One Woman, One Century"
Mikhail Iampolski: "Anthropology of Cultural Models: Two Ways of Appropriating History in the 1920s"