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Tag: Soviet Union
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Nation & World
Escaping hurdles in conservative Eastern European homeland
As a middle schooler, Ilinca Mazureac knew two things for certain — she was going to be a scientist, and she was gay.
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Nation & World
Why Soviet playbook isn’t working in Ukraine
Pulitzer-winning journalist Anne Applebaum says Russians misjudged resistance, their troops lack sense of mission, leading to “nihilism” of wider, more random destruction.
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Nation & World
Upending Putin’s Russia-Ukraine myth
Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder discussed how the past, both real and imaginary, is driving the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Nation & World
The rise of Vladimir Putin
Analysts look back at the unexpected rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin, now 20 years in power.
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Nation & World
The budding U.S.-Russia ‘bromance’
The incoming Trump administration could lead the United States to a fresh relationship with Russia, said analysts at a Belfer Center panel discussion.
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Nation & World
From bad to worse?
A Russian analyst talks about the deteriorating relationship between Washington and the Kremlin.
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Nation & World
Nuclear threats, then and now
Scholars gather at the Harvard Kennedy School for a seminar on the current challenges in avoiding nuclear war — and to marvel at just how drastically the nuclear threat has morphed in the two decades since the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed.
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Nation & World
A passion for unloving art
Australian native Maria Gough, the Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art at Harvard, studies the Russian and Soviet avant-garde periods because they portray “what the function of the artist is in a revolutionary climate.”
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Nation & World
Brazil’s public intellectual
Nicolau Sevcenko, now a professor of Romance languages and literatures at Harvard, reflects on the long journey that brought him here.
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Nation & World
When fear took control
More than a dozen high school teachers from around the area attended a workshop this week focused on the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing new points of view to bear on high school students’ understanding of the event.
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Nation & World
A rippling effect of the Holocaust
Areas of Russia whose Jewish populations bore the brunt of the Holocaust have seen lower economic growth and wages in the decades since, according to a new analysis.
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Nation & World
Gorbachev calls for new move to eliminate nukes
Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev called for a renewed commitment to eliminate the world’s nuclear weapons Tuesday (Dec. 4), saying the current generation of world leaders cannot coast on disarmament treaties of the past.
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Nation & World
Portraits of dissent on view at Davis Center
Norton Dodge is an economist, a Harvard alumnus, and a savior of smuggled Soviet art. Smuggler is not usually a moniker that one would choose, but for Norton Dodge it is a badge of honor. Concerned with the plight of artists living under Soviet rule, many of whom found their work prohibited by the regime,…