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Podcast examines Ukraine-Russia conflict through the lens of history
The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy interviewed three historical observers to help provide important context and framing for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
UW CREECA lecture by University of Pennsylvania associate professor Benjamin Nathans, Room 206.
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Why should Joe Biden be different when US foreign policy has always been dictated by self-interest?
In the early 1980s, while living in exile in West Germany, the late dissident Soviet astrophysicist Kronid Lyubarsky participated in a survey for a magazine about life in the Soviet Union. One question asked what the most productive US policy towards the USSR would be. “Firm pressure” on the Soviet Union to initiate domestic changes, was Lyubarsky’s response, adding that the US would need “patience in following this line since it doesn’t lead to immediate success”. I thought of Lyubarsky’s response recently when Joe Biden criticised what he described as the “politically moti...
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