The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow
6 aprile 2018, 10-11.30 Wilson Center, Washington (USA) In The Kremlinologist, diplomat Llewellyn E. Thompson’s daughters, Jenny and Sherry Thompson, trace their father’s journey from boyhood in rural Colorado and New Mexico to US ambassador to the USSR to presidential advisor on Soviet Affairs. What started as a private exploration into their family’s history, filled with anecdotes and documents from their family archives, evolved...
CfA: SOVIET EXPERIENCES OF THE HOLOCAUST
SUMMER WORKSHOP: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE USE OF ORAL TESTIMONIES: SOVIET EXPERIENCES OF THE HOLOCAUST (UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, AUG. 1-12, 2016) UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies CALL FOR APPLICATIONS All application materials must be received by February 14, 2016 August 1-12, 2016 Washington, D.C. The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for...
The Depths of Russia
Douglas Rogers The Depths of Russia Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism Russia is among the world’s leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet’s eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil industry. In The Depths of Russia, Douglas Rogers offers a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of oil’s place in Soviet and Russian life, based on ethnographic...
Stalin and Europe
Edited by Timothy Snyder and and Ray Brandon Stalin and Europe Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953 The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which it came into contact. This book considers each aspect of...
CfP: Judging the Past in a Post-Cold War World
Judging the Past in a Post-Cold War World Deadline: 31 May 2015. The collapse of the Soviet Union accelerated the search for justice and truth on the part of many millions of people whose lives had been overshadowed by the cold war, in many countries, for nearly half a century. Demands for justice and for recognition of suffering and loss have resulted in national Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, prosecution (or attempted...
