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Romania made headlines—and shocked the world—when it annulled a presidential election at the end of last year, citing evidence of foreign interference aimed at supporting a pro-Russian far-right candidate. It was a bold and necessary move, one that stands in stark contrast to what the U.S. should have done—and is now facing the consequences for not doing. But why would Romania take such a decisive stand? The answer lies in its history. Romania's Moscow-backed dictatorship was among the most brutal behind the Iron Curtain, a painful past that still unites much of the country today. In this week's episode, we delve into Romania's complex history, weaving in a personal story from Andrea's own family. Her father-in-law, Mihai Victor Serdaru, a medical student in 1956 Bucharest, attempted to lead a student protest in solidarity with the Hungarian Uprising next door. To help make sense of her years of research, Andrea turned to Dr. Corina Snitar, a historian and Lecturer in Central and Eastern European Studies at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Dr. Snitar is the author of Opposition, Repression, and Cold War: The 1956 Student Movement in Timișoara and contributed the chapter Women's Experiences of 1956: Student Protesters and Partisans in Romania to the book Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The discussion of how to topple a dictator will continue in this week's bonus show for our Patreon community, where we'll dive into a lively book club salon for political scientist Gene Sharp's revolutionary handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy. Sharp's work has inspired liberation movements worldwide, and we'll explore its urgent lessons for us today. Look for that on Friday. A huge thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you! “Just as military officers must understand force structures, tactics, logistics, munitions, the effects of geography, and the like in order to plot military strategy, political defiance planners must understand the nature and strategic principles of nonviolent struggle.” ― Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy   Want to enjoy Gaslit Nation ad-free? Join our community of listeners for bonus shows, ad-free episodes, exclusive Q&A sessions, our group chat, invites to live events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit!    Show Notes: 100 Organizations Supporting Trans People in All 50 States Discover the organizations working tirelessly to support trans people across the country and combat anti-trans legislation. Read more: https://www.them.us/story/orgs-fighting-back-anti-trans-legislation The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix Watch the powerful trailer for The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, a documentary about the life and legacy of a pioneering activist. Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADsuuPd79E MAGA Influencer Ashley St. Claire Returns Her Tesla Ashley St. Claire calls out Elon Musk for being a deadbeat dad as she returns her Tesla. Watch the video: https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1906741930467225671 Elon Musk Says His DOGE Role is Hurting Tesla's Stock Price In a candid interview, Elon Musk admits that his involvement with DOGE is impacting Tesla's stock price. Read more on CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-doge-very-expensive-job-tesla-stock-down-wisconsin/ Donald Trump Gives DOGE Update as Musk Announces He'll Step Down in May Elon Musk confirms he'll step down from his role in May. Details on Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gives-doge-update-elon-musk-says-hell-step-down-may-2053368 Trump Won't Rule Out a Third Term, Says 'There Are Methods' Donald Trump hints at the possibility of a third term in the White House, stating there are ways to make it happen. Read more on NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-house-methods-rcna198752 Dr. Corina Snitar's Bio Learn more about Dr. Corina Snitar, a respected scholar and educator in social and political studies. Read her bio: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/corinasnitar/ TeslaTakeDown.com Join the Tesla protest here! It's fun and easy. Learn more at TeslaTakeDown.com DOGE Hitler Youth DOGE Teen owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC' and worked at a startup that has hired convicted hackers. 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Companions, History and Heroism.By FinalStand. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.There are two distinct phases of falsehood. In the first, you realize you can lie to those closest to you. In the second, you realize you shouldn't.(And the stars continue to shine forth)"Stop trying to save me," Pamela remarked, once she was sure we were alone once more."Ask me to do something I'd at least consider doing," I sighed. "Let's go back to the party, I'm not sure where we are.""You've been walking in one big circle, Dummy," she chided me.Why was she letting me off the hook for walking off with the Grand Villain in the scheme of things? Well, if she started hitting me, she probably wasn't sure she could stop."One of these days I'm going to screw up and not get out of it," I noted sadly."That is the epitaph of anyone who has ever taken up a weapon and a cause," Pamela smiled.Maybe she wasn't angry with me."Why aren't you more pissed off?" I wondered."You are a good guy, Cáel," Pamela enlightened me. "That means you are going to reach out to people you think you can save. Personally, I don't think Alal can be, but then I'm biased.""Guy coming back from the dead?" I inquired."Damn right. No more surefire way to anger an assassin than to come back from the dead," she related. "Did you take note of his body?""Not really. What did I miss?" I requested."It didn't look right," Pamela shook her head. "Nothing more specific than that. I was hoping, since you touched him, you might have picked something else up.""Nope. I was too busy slipping a GPS locator on him," I grinned."You don't have one and the technology doesn't work that way, ya numbskull," she play slapped my left bicep."Wouldn't it be cool if it did?" my grin broadened."Laugh it up, Monkey-boy," Pamela countered. "Buffy would have you tagged like a mule deer in Yellowstone.""Eek," I gasped. "Point taken.""Well, " Pamela huffed."He's going to kill my soul," I observed. "Now I'm sure of it. All of that discussion was just gauging my personality so that when he offs me, he can become Cáel Nyilas / Wakko Ishara." Pause."Good for you," Pamela let go of a tense breath. She didn't have to ask."The whole Condottieri situation is a scam," I passed on that bit of information I'd first put together with the Vizsla. "It never left Granddad's control. Currently he's going to use various other factions to kill off the Condottieri and Illuminati leadership that oppose him, then it is Unity Time.""If he takes your place, that gives him leverage on the Amazon Council plus your appeal to the 9 Clans and the Earth  and  Sky," Pamela helped me work things through. "He couldn't get his hooks into the Egyptians because they knew too much about him. Matters of race stymied his efforts with the Earth  and  Sky and Seven Pillars.""Except I saved Temujin and he's been supplying them with weapons and tech for over fifty years," I told her. "Even when he was dead, his plan was working, he had predicted the path that warfare would take, invested wisely and left orders to implement his plans. When the time came, they were ready to take out the Seven Pillars.""Without you saving Temujin, the E and S wouldn't have cared, but you," Pamela nodded. "If it comes down to his coalition of Illuminati, Condottieri, Amazons and 9 Clans, the Egyptians will join him, Global Unification has been their goal all along," she continued. "Besides, you made one hell of a positive impression on them the only time you've met. Bang up job, Stud.""Temujin will join as well. He's anything but suicidal," I finished the roll call of my fate. We were almost back to the rave by this time. "You know, you could kill me and short-circuit all of this mess," I reminded her."No way. I plan to win, damn it," Pamela patted me on the back. "Save the Dum-sel in Disrepute, slay the Evil Warlord and re-retire with a boatload great-grandbabies to spoil.""I gave the Vizsla a clue," I let Pamela know the possible complications to her plan. "In 1847, one General of the Condottieri tried to have the Italian Black Hand kill another. Unfortunately, the victim in question was a puppet for Grandpa and the assassin team attacked them both. Because they saw his face, he hunted them back to their base and slaughtered the entire Verona Chapter house of the Wolf.""He must have fucked up a few other times as well," Pamela assured me. Speaking of miscalculations, Anya, Katalin and Orsi broke from the thrashing mob and ran up to me."Your crazy ex-girlfriend called," Anya seemed steamed. "She insisted must she talk to you." At first glance, it would be 'which crazy ex-GF', except only one had Anya's phone number. I took her phone."Bonjour, ma petite amie méchante ," I greeted Anais, the Mountie, in French. Yes, I was calling her a 'meanie'."Cáel, how are you? Where are you?" she was truly concerned. I didn't doubt her sincerity. I also didn't doubt she was convinced she knew what was best for me, as well."I've talked with the Hungarian Police too," I let my pique come through. "You screwed me over. I asked you to let me handled this and you didn't.""You are still a Jerk," she snapped. "I've been trying to help. And from the sounds of it, you are at a party.""It's a rave. It is a rave brought about by the police keeping people penned up in the town all afternoon. Now, if you would stop treating me like a freaking child, you would realize that I'm actually safer in a crowd than I am alone, holed-up in some room without a weapon because you've made it so that the TEK is now keeping a sharp eye on me," I retorted."Can't you tell I'm trying to help you?" she got loud, on the cusp of becoming enraged."Yes. I called you, asking for help. I also called to apologize, without making it sound like some lame stupid stunt to get you back. I'm in real trouble here and I've put other people in danger at the same time," I told her. And yes, I planned to get some 'Anais' when I got back to North America."I'm telling you," she persisted, "let Hungarian law enforcement help you.""I'm trying to make you understand," I countered, "that this is a situation that the police can't help me with. I called you because I believed I could trust you, even though you hate me.""I'm angry with you, Cáel. I don't hate you," she grumbled. "I am trying to help.""If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't still be talking to you, Anais," I allowed. "What did Timothy tell you?""Is that all you care about?" she grumbled."Actually, this is me trying not to be a selfish jackass," I said. "People are in danger because of me and I need to make sure they are safe before I take care of myself.""That's, very unlike you," Anais sounded unsure."I've been doing some growing up since graduation," I replied. "I only wish I'd grown smarter.""I, I'm sorry about your Papa," she quieted down."They gunned him down in his own home," I told her. "Dad never touched a gun in his life and they shot him with an assault rifle.""Oh, well, I understand your Federal Justice Department is investigating the matter," Anais tried to comfort me. "I talked with your Prosecutor Castello. She wouldn't tell me much.""Pity," I mumbled. "I know they are having difficulties.""It is an American problem," she noted."Not really," I sunk in my hooks. "We've been working with MI-6 and the CIA. They are all part of that international task force I told you about {see last chapter}.""Yes, how did you get Irish diplomatic status? That doesn't make any sense," she perked up. Anais liked puzzles. Actually, she liked solving conundrums. It made her a great cop."We are missing the party," Monika protested, in German."That's right. Tell your EX-girlfriend good-bye, Cáel," Anya insisted loudly."Who is that?" Anais groused."It is Anya, the Bulgarian mechanical engineer. We've had sex since you and I last talked and I think she's feeling a tad possessive," I explained.Pause."Bastard," Anais seethed. I was sure her cunt was twitching already. "Fine. I talked with your roommate, he says you have my uniform in a dress bag and my boots in a sealed box, so I forgive you. Anyway, he said Odette called, and she gave him a number to give to you."Since it didn't have 555 in it, I had hopes it was genuine. This was not the time to give Anais the quick kiss-off."I appreciate it, Anais," I sighed with relief. "Have you decided which restaurant you want to go to when I get back?""I haven't given it much thought, Cáel," I could feel her defrosting further. "How can I keep in touch with you?""Ugh, I don't have my own phone right now. Tomorrow I'm going to steal some means of conveyance and, " I grinned."Don't tell me that," Anais complained. "I'm still an officer of the law.""Well, the new 'me' is trying to be more honest with you, Anais. I've got to get out of town tomorrow. Would you rather I lied to you, again?" I confounded her."Well, no. Try to be careful, prends soin de mon amour," she sighed."I will call you as soon as I'm able. Thank you again," I signed off."I still say, 'that one' is confused about her 'ex' status," Orsi teased me."Do you know what is worse than having one woman save your soul?" I tossed out to them. They could not divine an answer. "Having three women do it at the same time, for different reasons. Now I believe we have a party starving for our attention."(Reunions)Pamela had convinced me the motorcycle driver who belonged to our newly acquired BMW K1600 GT would be at least four hours regaining consciousness and getting himself untied. We had stopped at a petrol station along the 431, between Kiszombor, Hungary and the Romanian border. She wanted to fuel up before the border crossing, in case things didn't work out, you know, with our guns and this stolen vehicle.She was already peeved that I'd stopped in Szeged to pick up a few pounds of paprika. Rumor had it that the fields around that stretch of the Tisza produced the highest quality of that spice on the planet, especially the sweet kind. Pamela pointed out I knew 'jack' about cooking. I agreed. What I did know was cooks, the female variety.Fresh spice from the 'source' was way better than a dozen roses, even with a box of chocolates added. Did I have a cook lined up in New York? No, but I was sure I could find one. Wait! Yasmin, my Brazilian, ex-Super Cop, hottie should be back in town by now. If she didn't cook, she'd definitely have a friend I could seduce.Honest to Ishara, I was starting to believe this constant 'work-work-work' was ruining my normally poor judgment where sex and fidelity were concerned.Pamela was getting some lunch for us while I gassed up my crotch-rocket. My luck kept being, exceptional. Two Hungarian motorcycle troopers showed up; both were women and they apparently had decided that I was worthy of attention. Hey, I'm good-looking, and I was wearing a ballistic vest. (The durability of my long coat wasn't so obvious.) "Nice bike," the first one, the one directly confronting me, said. "Thanks. It is a KT1600 GT, 2009," I smiled. "What are you two on?" "Yamaha FJR1300A's," she answered. I put up the nozzle, capped the tank and walked over to her conveyance. It was a really sweet ride. "You have a gun," she noted calmly. She and her partner both had their hands on their holstered weapons. Since the flaps were still down, I wasn't panicking. "Yes. More than one in fact," I kept pretending to look over her bike while I was really scoping her out. I'd nailed all six boat girls and then had the Macedonian babe for breakfast. So I still had three good sexual bangs in me before dusk and these two were nice and pleasant enough. "Do you have permits for those?" she asked. Her partner was calling something in. "Are we still in Hungary?" I mused. The question was a joke. "I believe we are," she smiled. Sure, I may have been a dangerous felon, but I was a nice looking and engaging one."Nope. I'm afraid not," I sighed. She understood my English. "Why are you so armed?" she kept calm. "Are you law enforcement somewhere?" "Does a secretive, non-governmental, paramilitary organization count?" "No," she sighed. "That sounds rather criminal. So, what are you carrying?" That was a nice way of saying 'give me your gun'."Left, right, back, or ankle?" I replied. "Which one do you want first?" "Let's try this again. Can I see some form of ID?" she remained rather comfortable despite this having to be the most bizarre traffic stop of her career."I'm reaching around to my right rear jean pocket for it," I related. Something dating Anais had taught me was that you always tell an on-duty cop what you are doing before you do it.She nodded, so I pulled out my NY Driver's license, my US passport and my Irish Diplomatic ID. She began looking them over. "You are Cáel Nyilas?" she looked over my documents. "If that who it says I am, then yes," I grinned.For a second, she was P-O'ed, then she realized I was playing with her. She snorted in amusement and returned to looking over my stuff.   "Nyilas is a Hungarian name," she hummed. "Székely," I clarified. "My family emigrated to America at the end of World War II. I've actually come back here to look over the homeland." "You couldn't land in Bucharest?" she handed me my ID back. "What?" I feigned an insult to my intellect. "Hungarian women are far prettier.""You don't appear to be Dortmund Schuyler," her partner looked me over.

We speak with Dr Gregg Robins about his journey from a young musician living in the Bronx to finding himself at the center of major geopolitical events, including the fall of the Soviet Union and the formation of the Euro. We discuss his time at Oxford, his years in Moscow, and his thinking on the family office world. Gregg Robins runs Robins Advising, a family-office consulting firm based in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to Robins Advising, he ran the UBS in Moscow and opened the first UBP office in Moscow. Gregg has taught and lectured at leading business schools, including the Executive MBA programs with the NYU Stern school of business, and the New Economic School in Moscow. He was elected Teacher of the Year by his MBA students at NYU Stern in 2006. Gregg holds a BA in Economics from Rice University. He was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he received a Masters and Doctorate, with specialty in Finance and Russian and Eastern European Studies. He is a Dean's Fellow with Said Business School at Oxford.  What Gregg is Reading Right Now: Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that will Change the World by Parmy Olson Gregg's Music Recommendation: “A Bar Song” by Shaboozy Read More from Gregg: Robins Advising Website; on LinkedIn

On 15 and 16 June, Switzerland is organizing a Summit on Peace in Ukraine and about 90 countries and organizations will attend. Russia wasn't invited and Ukrainian analyst Julia Kazdobina explains why. She is a Visiting Fellow at The Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies and she heads the Ukrainian Foundation for Security Studies. So what would be a successful summit for Ukraine and would be a failure? Listen to our conversation. And if you enjoy what I do, please support me on Ko-fi! Thank you. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/amatisak --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andrej-matisak/message

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Lynn Tesser about the various ways of thinking about empire. They discuss moving from empire to nation states, define nationalism vs. nation states, and sovereignty and modular nationalism. They talk about rebellions in the Americas as being more mixed, the Greek revolution as performed by elites, the Balkans and Anatolia in the post-Ottoman period, Armenia, empire today, and many more topics. Lynn Tesser is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Marine Corps University with a focus on comparative politics, international relations, and history. She has Bachelors in political science from Reed College and her Masters and PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. She has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright Commission, and the MacArthur and Mellon Foundations. She was a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute (2019), a Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki's Aleksanteri Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies (2011), and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the International University of Sarajevo (2008-10) as well as at the American University, Girne-Cyprus (2011-12). She is the author of her latest book, Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics. Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of “God on the Move,” Thomas Frovin discusses the rising spiritual interest among the Danish people. Despite widespread secularization in Denmark and central Europe, new trends indicate an openness to various faiths, creating a unique opportunity to share the Gospel with those from a secular background.   Thomas Frovin Thomas Frovin serves as a pastor at Apostle Church (Apostelkirken, in Danish), a Church of Denmark building located in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Frovin holds a BA in History and Eastern European Studies, with prior experience in church work in Albania and Peru. Ordained as a priest in 2022, he served as a project leader in “I Mesterens lyd,” aimed at connecting the church with the emerging spiritual world. Thomas contributes to spirituality through articles, opinion pieces, and books, including “Ånd og Arvegods,” published in 2022. Despite Apostelkirken being his first pastoral position, Thomas brings two decades of experience engaging in religious dialogues, both domestically and internationally.

Matt Dimmick served as the Director for Russia and Eastern Europe on the National Security Council Staff. He previously served as the Russia Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Through that he consulted a president on Russian affairs. He also held the positions of Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché in Tbilisi, Georgia, Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor for the Chief of Staff of the Army, and Assistant Army Attaché in Moscow.A veteran of the US Army, Matt served as an infantry officer and foreign area officer for 29 years with overseas assignments in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Bosnia, Kosovo, Russia, Iraq, and Georgia. Matt is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, holds a Master of Arts degree in National Strategy from the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, and a Master of Arts degree in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Kansas.He retired from the Army and joined the nonprofit Spirit of America in 2022 as a regional program manager. LINKS:For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, visit our website.To make a financial gift to give students life-changing one-on-one mentoring and to help families in crisis, visit our secure donation page.For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.If you'd like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.

Bald zwei Jahre nach Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs fehlt es der Ukraine nicht nur an Waffen, sondern zunehmend auch an Soldatinnen und Soldaten. Kiew will deshalb mit einem neuen Gesetz die Mobilisierung forcieren. Das habe in der Ukraine zu einem sehr heftigen Streit geführt, sagt Andreas Umland, Analyst beim Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies. Weitere Themen: (06:36) Ukraine streitet um Rekrutierung neuer Soldaten (13:27) Nordeuropa steht unter Kälteschock (16:42) Das Geschäft mit Brot ist hart (21:06) Altes Skigebiet in San Bernardino in neuem Glanz

It has been more than 30 years since the five Central Asian states became independent, yet the term “Russia's backyard” is often still used by some people, including Western media, when reporting on the region. Understandably, many in Central Asia find this way of describing their region offensive. Yet Russia remains a neighbor and a country with unique influence in Central Asia. How far has Central Asia come in being independent from Russia and what are some of the ties that still bind the region to its former colonizer? Joining host Bruce Pannier to discuss the ebb and flow of Central Asia's relations with Russia in the last two years are guests Johan Engvall, an analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies; Navbahor Imamova, veteran correspondent for the Uzbek Service at Voice of America, and Temur Umarov, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia-Eurasia Center in Berlin.

Today's episode is a short book summary, on a book called Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen Ghodsee. This book was written for young Americans who were pissed off and energized by the election of Trump.The author, Dr. Kristen Ghodsee is a professor of Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies countries that went from socialism to capitalism. Her big thesis in this book is that capitalism isn't all it is cracked up to be. That it turns out we, as a society can't really have it all, and she zeroes in on women in particular. Based on her research, she believes that women will have more economic freedom and work life balance under socialism, whereas capitalism has reinforced gendered stereotypes and roles, a gender wage gap and a situation where women work second shifts as caretakers. Tune in to the episode to learn more!Support the show

This episode of Talking History looks at the life and legacy of Joseph Stalin. Dr Patrick Geoghegan speaks with Professor Geoffrey Roberts, Professor of History at University College Cork, Professor James Harris, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Leeds, Dr Anna Toropova, School of Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Oxford, Professor Polly Jones, Professor of Russian and Schrecker-Barbour Fellow in Slavonic Studies at University College Oxford, and Rosemary Sullivan, biographer and author of 'Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva'.

Almost exactly a year has passed since the start of Russia's second invasion of Ukraine in less than a decade – and what a year it's been, marked first by jubilation at the unexpected success of the Ukrainian armed forces, then by consternation at the realization that this was going to turn into a long, grinding, attritional war. To take stock of the current military and political situation at the one-year mark I'm delighted to be joined again by the noted Russia and Ukraine expert Dr. Andreas Umland from the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

The cost of Ukrainian victory will be high, and there are many voices calling for peace, as the full-scale war that started in February 2022 approaches its first anniversary. But peace at any price is surely rewards the aggressor, rather than the victim, and may just provide Russia with a breathing space to rearm and reignite the assault in years to come. So, what would need to happen for negotiations to be meaningful, and for a lasting peace to be found, that is equitable and sensitive to the victim. I have great pleasure in introducing Andreas Umland, author, editor, academic, and prolific researcher in international relations, politics, and Political science. You gained an MA in Political Science from Stanford University and Ph. D. in Politics from the University of Cambridge. You have also lectured in Ukraine, Russia, and the UK. Andreas is a senior analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, and an analyst at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Andreas is editor of the publications “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” and “Ukrainian Voices.” It would probably take me the entire hour to list your accomplishments, so instead, let's dive straight into the questions.

>>> Become a patron of Talk Eastern Europe for even more content: http://bit.ly/3nMGeYjIn this week's episode Aga sits down with not one but two guests to discuss the Swedish presidency of the Council of the EU, the future of the Eastern Partnership, and the role civil society has played and can play in the relations between the EU and the EaP, as well as within the EaP itself. This episode is co-produced with ForumCiv, a Swedish development cooperation organisation uniting around 200 Swedish CSOs and supporting civil society in over 70 countries all over the world. Our guests are Ognjen Radonjic, Hub Manager for Eastern Europe at ForumCiv, and Hugo von Essen, an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies.You can learn more about ForumCiv at https://www.forumciv.org/int. You can find Hugo's and SCEEUS' research at https://sceeus.se/en/.As we mention in the outro of this episode, we love to hear from you! You can contact us via:1. Our website https://talkeasterneurope.eu/2. Our Facebook group "Talk Eastern Europe Podcast" or 3. Twitter @AWidlaszewska and @areichardt.

Russia's war of aggression started in 2014 against Ukraine and has escalated significantly this year. But the attempts to control, coerce and dominate Ukraine have far deeper roots. In this video Andreas Umland and I examine the deep causes of the war, going back into Russia's imperialist past with one of the world's foremost experts on Russian international relations and politics. We will also explore how this conflict might end, based on Russia's past military triumphs, defeats, and revolutions. Andreas Umland, author, editor, academic, and prolific researcher in international relations, politics, and Political science. He gained an MA in Political Science from Stanford University and Ph. D. in Politics from the University of Cambridge. Andreas also lectured in Ukraine, Russia, and the UK. Andreas is a senior analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, and an analyst at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Andreas is editor of the publications “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” and “Ukrainian Voices.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions that make up nearly a fifth of the whole country's territory. Earlier this week, the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson voted overwhelmingly to formally join the Russian federation. But the referendum was denounced by most of the west, with allegations that residents had been pressured to approve Russia's annexation. Türkiye, which has been mediating between Kiev and Moscow, has called for dialogue and diplomacy to settle this latest crisis and the overall conflict. So what impact will the referendum and annexation have? Guests: Amanda Paul Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre Andreas Umland Analyst at Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, associate professor of practice at Teachers College, Columbia University. During their talk, Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess discusses her story, storytelling, radicalization, the importance of student and teacher relationships, identity, and her message to students.Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess has taught, researched, and published on a range of issues in education, including mixed methods, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, teaching quality, development, inclusion, radicalization, othering, educational displacement, storytelling, marginalization, social transformation, social disintegration, social norm formation, social mobility, higher education policy, transitional justice, Islam, financial inclusion of women, and corruption. Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess' most recent work on radicalization and building resilience to hate, othering, and exclusion has sparked significant international interest and Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess has delivered 50+ invited lectures in the U.S., South Korea, China, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, Germany, Austria, Indonesia, Jordan, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, the United Kingdom, Qatar, and India.More than twenty-five years ago, Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess first became a teacher as a young teen during the Bosnian Genocide. Her lived experience of being an object of hate and ethnic persecution has informed her scholarship on building resilience to othering and extremism via education. She was awarded a 2021 Finalist Medal for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction by the American Library Association and Best Book recognition by School Library Journal, Malala Fund, Capitol Choices, and Children's Center for Literature for her nonfiction work exploring resilience to exclusion, othering, and hate. Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess obtained her PhD (2012) in Comparative and International Education with a specialization in Economics at Columbia University. Her doctoral research employed mixed methods to examine the intricacies of favor reciprocation and corruption in education, providing empirical evidence on how such phenomena usurped merited social mobility in education and triggered displacement. Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess holds a Master of Philosophy (2010) from Columbia University's Teachers College and Masters in Economic and Political Development with a specialization in the Persian Gulf from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (2004), as well as a B.A. in Economics from Brown University (2000). She is a recipient of multiple awards, including grants from the Smith Richardson Foundation; the U.S. State Department; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Kennan Institute; International Research and Exchange Board; Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies; and others.

This is the second issue of the Ukraine Calling relaunched. Our guest today is Andreas Umland — Analyst of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies

President Putin's decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has plunged Russia into international isolation. The Russian economy is being hammered by sanctions, increasing numbers of brands and business are halting their operations in the country, and the Russian government has cracked down on anti-war protests and independent media. In this episode, our panel of young Russian leaders discuss their hopes, fears and ambitions for the future of the country. Giles Whittell, of Tortoise Media, speaks to Anton Barbashin, Editorial Director at Riddle Russia; Ella Rossman, doctoral student at UCL in the school of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies; Tonia Samsonova, former Head of Yandex. Q and former journalist; and Dr Denis Stolyarov, art historian and curator at Pushkin House.  This episode was recorded as a live broadcast on  3rd May 2022.

Im Mai 1997 wurde die Nato-Russland-Grundakte feierlich unterzeichnet. Frieden und Stabilität sollte die Vereinbarung bringen. Doch ist die Grundakte angesichts des Kriegs in der Ukraine überhaupt noch relevant? Vor 25 Jahren, am 27. Mai 1997, wurde in Paris die Nato-Russland-Grundakte feierlich unterzeichnet. Für Russland unterschrieb Präsident Boris Jelzin. Es war die Rede von Frieden, Sicherheit und Stabilität zwischen den ehemals verfeindeten Blöcken. Mit der Grundakte verpflichteten sich beide Seiten, die Souveränität aller Staaten zu achten und auf Androhung oder Anwendung von Gewalt zu verzichten. Der Grundstein für die Nato-Osterweiterung war gelegt. Wenige Zeit später traten als erste Polen, Tschechien und Ungarn der Nato bei. Und heute? Angesichts des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine sind die Beziehungen zwischen Russland und der Nato auf einem historischen Tiefpunkt angelangt. Was bleibt von der Grundakte an ihrem 25. Jubiläum? Jeronim Perovic ist Professor für osteuropäische Geschichte an der Universität Zürich und leitet das Center for Eastern European Studies, das sich mit aktuellen Fragen zu Osteuropa auseinandersetzt. Er sagt: «Es ist falsch die Grundakte nur durch die derzeitige Linse zu betrachten.»

American historian Norman M. Naimark is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Norman writes on modern Eastern European history, genocide, and ethnic cleansing in the region. He is one of our most respected experts on the Soviet era. He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of professional journals, including The American Historical Review and The Journal of Contemporary History. One of Norman's most famous studies is “The Russians In Germany”. He wrote in a 2017 essay that genocide is often tied to war, dehumanization, and/or economic resentment. KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information about project: https://kse.ua/lektsi-na-pidtrimku-ukrayini/ The KSE launched a humanitarian aid campaign for Ukraine. The campaign's objective is to purchase necessary supplies, first aid, and protective kits for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Paramedic Association, and the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. No matter how small, every donation can help deliver essential aid and supplies. DONATE: https://kse.ua/support/donation Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KyivSchool https://twitter.com/brik_t Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KyivSchoolOfEconomics

 Raphael Bostic, Atlanta Fed President, says there is no need for a hike greater than 50 basis point. Wally Adeyemo, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, says Russia's actions are a key contributor to energy and food price increases. George Saravelos, Deutsche Bank Global FX Research Head, says the market is too pessimistic on the euro. Ian Shepherdson, Pantheon Macroeconomics Chief Economist, says markets have been too aggressive on the speed of Fed hikes in the short-term. Cynthia Hooper, College of the Holy Cross Director of Russian and Eastern European Studies, discusses Vladimir Putin's Victory Day speech. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's been three weeks since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, and as the destruction worsens, the warring sides are discussing a ceasefire. One possibility is Ukraine declaring its neutrality like Sweden or Austria. But will Ukrainians accept the compromise? Join host Mohammed Jamjoom. With guests: Peter Zalmayev - Executive Director, Eurasia Democracy Initiative. Pavel Felgenhauer - Defense and Military Analyst, Novaya Gazeta newspaper. Andreas Umland - Research Fellow, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies.

Dagen då Ryssland inledde invasionen av Ukraina, den 24:e februari 2022, förändrades världen i grunden. Över en natt, som man brukar säga. Den säkerhetsordning vi haft i Europa byggde på en överenskommelse om att varje land har rätt att välja sin egen väg i utrikespolitiken och att inget annat land har rätt att med våld flytta gränser för en suverän stat. Nu har Ryssland frångått det. Hur hamnade vi här och vad ska vi göra åt det? Om man inte talar ryska så kan man inte förstå Ryssland, åtminstone inte fullt ut. Därför är experter som behärskar språket och kulturen värda sin vikt i guld, särskilt nu. Dagens gäst är en av dem. Fredrik Löjdquist är chef över Centrum för Östeuropastudier (Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies, SCEEUS) som är ett fristående kunskapscentrum inrättat och finansierat av regeringen. Han har en lång bakgrund som diplomat med fokus på Östeuropa, Ryssland och hybridkrigföring. Ryska lärde han sig i lumpen, ett par år innan muren föll. Inom hans eget skrå, och bland säkerhetspolitiska experter, var det många som såg vad som höll på att hända med Ryssland. Men västvärlden i stort reagerade inte i tid, enligt honom.– Det fanns en fördröjning i det västerländska i västs förståelse av vad som höll på att ske, och man hade kanske lite svårt att ta till sig alla signaler och dra slutsatsen av dem, men åtminstone efter den ryska aggressionen mot Ukraina 2014 blev det uppenbart. Men kanske trodde man att det skulle stanna där på något sätt. Att man hade ett jämlikt läge som förvisso var olyckligt och besvärligt, men som ändå kunde hanteras på något sätt. Och det vi har sett byggas upp under de senaste året är det ju att Ryssland absolut inte är nöjt med status quo, utan man vill flytta fram positionerna.– Det är viktigt att komma ihåg att det här inte bara handlar om Ukraina, utan det handlar om om vår säkerhet, om allas säkerhet. Både på europeisk nivå och på den globala nivån. Kan man säga, som exempelvis John Mearsheimer, att det är USA, Nato och EU som provocerat Ryssland till detta? Han menar att man i stället borde ha gjort Ukraina och Georgien till buffertstater mellan stormakterna. – Det bygger på en massa felaktiga antaganden, skulle jag hävda. För det första strider det mot idén att alla stater är lika suveräna. Denna tanke innebär att man skulle till mäta vissa stater mer inflytande, att ett stort land som Ryssland skulle ha veto över ett annat lands utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik, men kanske också i inrikespolitiken. – Då är man ute på ett väldigt farligt sluttande plan. Om du börjar göra avkall på de här principerna, var kommer det sluta någonstans? Vilka länder ska utgöra den här bufferten? Om vi i Sverige eller Finland inte kan lita på att principen om territoriell integritet eller suveränitet gäller för ett land som Ukraina? Hur ska vi då veta att det gäller för våra egna länder? – Det här bygger på en underliggande kålsuparteori, nämligen att Ryssland har sin inflytandesfär och USA och Nato har sin. Men så är det inte. Vad det handlar om är inte att USA eller Nato har en egen sfär. Nato är en demokratisk sammanslutning av länder där länderna frivilligt och självmant har gått med. Det gäller även EU. Det är inte så att det sker på något diktat uppifrån, till skillnad från när Putin vill kunna bestämma andra länders politik från Moskva.(Ovanstående är bara ett kort utdrag från samtalet.) Jag mottar inga statliga bidrag eller annan finansiering, utan förlitar mig helt på er läsare och lyssnare. Genom att bli betalande prenumerant gör man det möjligt för mig att fortsätta vara en självständig röst.Länk till Fredrik Löjdquists senaste memo om Ukrainakriget: härIntervju med John Mearsheimer: här Utgivaren ansvarar inte för kommentarsfältet. (Myndigheten för press, radio och tv (MPRT) vill att jag skriver ovanstående för att visa att det inte är jag, utan den som kommenterar, som ansvarar för innehållet i det som skrivs i kommentarsfältet.) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ivararpi.substack.com/subscribe

Russia is facing sanctions from around the world. Can they hit the country hard enough to make it change course and leave Ukraine in peace? In a live episode David Aaronovitch considers how sanctions have worked in other crises, why they are so frequently used and what circumstances are required for them to be successful.He is joined by: Lee Jones, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London and author of the book Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) WorkTom Keatinge, Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSIDr Maria Shagina, Fellow at the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich Tyler Kustra, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham Producers: Rosamund Jones, Kirsteen Knight and Ben Carter Production co-ordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed Studio manager: Rod Farquhar Editor: Richard Vadon

As tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine, NATO steps in to back Kiev. On Wednesday, in his annual address to parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it was time for direct talks with the Kremlin to end the conflict. But how will Moscow respond? And can diplomacy stop the escalation? Guests: Andrei Fedorov Member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Advisory Team Dana Lewis Journalist and Russian Affairs Analyst Andreas Umland Analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies

Maria Shagina joins us on the podcast to talk about the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, its effect on US-German relations, and how Russia is using it as a political weapon against Ukraine. Dr. Maria Shagina is a CEES Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich. She is currently affiliated with the Geneva International Sanctions Network. As a political risk analyst for Global Risk Insights, she covered energy politics and sanctions in post-Soviet countries. Needless to say, she's a badass. Links: Questions? Reach out at: info@perchperspectives.com Subscribe to the Perch Pod Newsletter https://perchperspectives.com/reports/ (HERE) Check out LatamPolitik https://latampolitik.com/ (here)! Socials- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/PerchSpectives (PerchSpectives) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/perch-perspectives/ (Perch Perspectives) Website: https://perchperspectives.com/ (https://perchperspectives.com/)

Weltpolitik in Genf beim Gipfeltreffen von US-Präsident Biden und dem russischen Präsidenten Putin. Stehen die Zeichen auf Entspannung oder Konfrontation zwischen den USA und Russland? Gast im «Tagesgespräch» ist Russland-Historiker Jeronim Perovic. Die Welt blickt gespannt nach Genf, wo sich heute US-Präsident Joe Biden und der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin zu Gesprächen treffen. Was ist konkret von diesem Treffen zu erwarten? Ukrainekrise, Syrienkrieg, atomare Abrüstung, Klimawandel: Konfliktfelder zwischen den USA und Russland gibt es viele. Die Beziehungen sind auf einem historischen Tiefpunkt. Ist eine Annäherung überhaupt möglich? Mit Jeronim Perovic wollen wir die wechselvolle Beziehung zwischen Russland und den USA näher beleuchten. Er ist Professor für osteuropäische Geschichte und leitet an der Universität Zürich das Center for Eastern European Studies, das sich mit aktuellen Fragen Osteuropas auseinandersetzt. Barbara Peter hat Jeronim Perovic zum Gespräch getroffen.

Understanding and sparring with Russia has been a goal of American diplomacy since the 1950's. But Putin has brought his country to a new level of post-Soviet grandeur. The largest nation in the world is making its presence felt by the ex-KGB man turned politician. Understanding Putin is the main purpose of this episode. His desires, his weaknesses, his endgame. And there is no better a witness to each than Dr. Angela Stent. The Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies, and a Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Stent has over 40 years of experience with the USSR and Russia. And now, she's on The Finch. You can learn more about what we do by following us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube, or by checking out our website. New episodes released each Friday. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-finch-podcast/support

Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Andrey Movchan, a nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, and Maria Shagina, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich, to discuss the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian economy. After eight years of Western sanctions, has the Russian economy suffered substantially as a result? Do the latest U.S. sanctions in fact show that Washington is ready to turn the page? How successful has Russia's import substitution been? And how far do sanctions actually play into the Kremlin's hands at home?

Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Andrey Movchan, a nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, and Maria Shagina, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich, to discuss the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian economy. After eight years of Western sanctions, has the Russian economy suffered substantially as a result? Do the latest U.S. sanctions in fact show that Washington is ready to turn the page? How successful has Russia’s import substitution been? And how far do sanctions actually play into the Kremlin’s hands at home?

Save Meduza!https://support.meduza.io/enThis week, the Biden administration rolled out the latest round of U.S. sanctions against Russia, slapping Moscow (yet again) with a series of targeted measures to punish the Kremlin for alleged election meddling, hacking, and military aggression. The U.S. Treasury Department identified a few dozen persons and entities, freezing any of their assets in the United States and banning Americans from doing business with them. Russia soon followed suit with its own set of countersanctions, while simultaneously launching an effort to liquidate Alexey Navalny's nationwide anti-corruption apparatus. Acknowledging the diplomatic significance of these decisions, arguably the most important aspect of these new measures is the expansion of U.S. restrictions on the market for Russian sovereign debt. To find out exactly how American sanctions can affect Russia's macroeconomic financial flows, “The Naked Pravda” turned to Maximilian Hess, a political risk expert and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and Dr. Maria Shagina, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich and a member of the Geneva International Sanctions Network at the Graduate Institute. “The Naked Pravda” comes out on Saturdays (or sometimes Fridays). Catch every new episode by subscribing at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or other platforms. If you have a question or comment about the show, please write to Kevin Rothrock at kevin@meduza.io with the subject line: “The Naked Pravda.”

Morgan Murray grew up on a farm near the same backwoods central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning. He now lives in the backwoods of Cape Breton with his wife, cartoonist Kate Beaton, Mary the baby, Agnes the dog, Reggie the cat, Peggy the ditch kitten, and six chickens without names because they all look alike. He has a BA in Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary, a Certificate in Central and Eastern European Studies from the University of Economics, Prague, a MPhil in Humanities from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a participation ribbon for beef calf showmanship (incomplete) from the Little Britches 4-H Club, Caroline, Alberta.

Rainbow Farm O what tangled webs we weave, the cute little rabbits led by Imperitia have been successful in pulling their party to the extreme left. Fancy beaten down to the point of submission has capitulated to the calls and demands for Impeachment as Operation Take Down Pete continues. Her lead attack dog Shifty the Weasel leads the charge as Nads the Walrus is regulated to second fiddle. The Shifty Show is just another nothing burger as KT, the Turtle from the Bourbon Belt and leader of the Elephants just waits on the foregone political conclusion from the House so he can chew it up and spit it out like the rotten piece of lettuce it is. Pete continues to drain the swamp and the Left continues to howl with displeasure. Many of the deep state are shown the door to include two little Ukrainian twin bears, Beefy and Atticus. The new election is just around the corner and presidential pretenders like CPL aka Avy the Anteater are exposed as frauds while the others split into two camps: the Bolsheviks led by Old Red the Bear and the Mods led by Sniffy the Hound. Pete like the rest of the Elephants just sit back and enjoys the show and circular firing squad of Donkeys such as the maniacal debate known as the Huss, Fuss and Cuss in Sin City the barnyard casino. Another pretender a rich potbellied Pig named Wiltberg, Wilty for short, one of the richest animals on the Farm is trying to buy the nomination. Who will the Donkeys pick? Will it be the cute young possum A. E. Neuman; Old Red and his coveted balloon, Sniffy, Dyani the Doe, Peppermint Patty the Meerkat or Wilty? Will anyone challenge Justice, have they learned from their mistakes of the past? How will they fare against Pete in the General? Will the Donkeys screw Old Red again? Will Shrill parachute in at the last minute to save the day? Is the Farm headed for Revolution? Join along and enjoy this sequel to Rainbow Farm and find the answers to these questions. Robert Williams is a retired Army officer who lives in Northern Virginia. Enlisting in the US Army in 1982 into the Infantry his first assignment was Fort Lewis, Washington. The high point of this first tour was climbing Mount Rainer and many weekends spent in Pioneer Square Tavern in Seattle. His thirty-two year Army career was one of two halves the first being assignments with the Infantry and the latter eighteen years as a Russia Foreign Area officer with multiple assignments in Eastern Europe and missions in Russia proper. Born in 1960 in Memphis, Tennessee he lived there a very short time before moving to West Memphis, Arkansas. Growing up as the son of a school teacher he was encouraged from an early age to read and to this day remains an avid reader. His summers were spent in Tyronza , Arkansas where he along with his siblings and cousins worked for their maternal grandfather chopping cotton and soy beans. Cotton in the south was a year round affair beginning with planting in the spring, chopping in the summer and packing down the trailers in the fall when it was harvested. During spare time he read the Hardy Boys and classics from Mark Twain to include Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. After graduating from high school Bob moved to Salinas, California before moving to southern California where he lived in Ventura. When living in Salinas he became enamored with the famous local author John Steinbeck reading several of his classics. His favorites were The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. After a few years living in California he moved back to Arkansas and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Army. While in College in 1987 at the University of Memphis and enrolled in a Medical Anthropology course the seed for writing was planted. A course requirement he penned received high praise and encouragement from his instructor Dr. Ruthbeth Finerman . Ms. Finerman encouraged Bob to make an attempt at getting the paper published as an article in Memphis Magazine. He never made the attempt but the praise and encouragement from such an esteemed professor who he greatly admired stuck with him for years to come. Years later when in a Master’s Program for Russian and Eastern European Studies he would be required to write a thesis on the Russia and Chechnya conflict 94/96. He also dove head on into more reading in the required Russian literature his favorite being Fyodor Dosvetsky’s Crime and Punishment. But it was a British author, George Orwell and his allegorical novella Animal Farm that was his favorite. This story would resurface seventeen years later and while on vacation with his family in South Carolina the seed planted in Memphis in 1987 twenty plus years earlier would germinate and he would pen Rainbow Farm. www.amazon.com http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/robtwilliams2.mp3

RAINBOW FARM by Robert R. Williams Rainbow Farm is an account of the state of US political affairs since the election of Donald Trump as the Forty-Fifth President. It uses the same principle as George Orwell did in Animal Farm where certain notorious personalities come to life as animals on the farm. It exposes the hypocrisy of both US political parties, Donkeys and Elephants, in their dealings with each other as well as their hypocritical views of other farms. When it comes to US foreign policy, it exposes how US criticisms of other farms’ actions are really actions that are the same as its own. It shows how we all are similar in nature and one and the same with just different means trying to achieve the same ends. You will immediately recognize certain personalities like the flamboyant Pete, sexy Rex, Shrill, and Cam, but other personalities portrayals are more cryptic, requiring analysis to determine who that character may be. The story begins with the arrival of Pete to the farm up to the point of the election and the aftermath of what is undoubtedly the greatest political upset in modern history. Not all is serious, and not all is politics. Join the animals on the farm in their favorite pastime as they observe the annual bull-riding competition on Justice; watch Regan in her inferno as she slowly gets grilled by Sly, and have a front row to the Hen’s March, the Coup, and Inquisition. Enjoy the in-depth conversation between Rex and Pete, and finally contemplate the final interview of the Wise Old Owl on numerous topics which are afflicting today’s society. There is something for everyone in Rainbow Farm. Hopefully, the result of reading it will be an honest self-critique of ourselves and America and more acceptance of all things different. Robert Williams is a retired Army officer who lives in Northern Virginia. Enlisting in the US Army in 1982 into the Infantry his first assignment was Fort Lewis, Washington. The high point of this first tour was climbing Mount Rainer and many weekends spent in Pioneer Square Tavern in Seattle. His thirty-two year Army career was one of two halves the first being assignments with the Infantry and the latter eighteen years as a Russia Foreign Area officer with multiple assignments in Eastern Europe and missions in Russia proper. Born in 1960 in Memphis, Tennessee he lived there a very short time before moving to West Memphis, Arkansas. Growing up as the son of a school teacher he was encouraged from an early age to read and to this day remains an avid reader. His summers were spent in Tyronza , Arkansas where he along with his siblings and cousins worked for their maternal grandfather chopping cotton and soy beans. Cotton in the south was a year round affair beginning with planting in the spring, chopping in the summer and packing down the trailers in the fall when it was harvested. During spare time he read the Hardy Boys and classics from Mark Twain to include Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. After graduating from high school Bob moved to Salinas, California before moving to southern California where he lived in Ventura. When living in Salinas he became enamored with the famous local author John Steinbeck reading several of his classics. His favorites were The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. After a few years living in California he moved back to Arkansas and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Army. While in College in 1987 at the University of Memphis and enrolled in a Medical Anthropology course the seed for writing was planted. A course requirement he penned received high praise and encouragement from his instructor Dr. Ruthbeth Finerman . Ms. Finerman encouraged Bob to make an attempt at getting the paper published as an article in Memphis Magazine. He never made the attempt but the praise and encouragement from such an esteemed professor who he greatly admired stuck with him for years to come. Years later when in a Master’s Program for Russian and Eastern European Studies he would be required to write a thesis on the Russia and Chechnya conflict 94/96. He also dove head on into more reading in the required Russian literature his favorite being Fyodor Dosvetsky’s Crime and Punishment. But it was a British author, George Orwell and his allegorical novella Animal Farm that was his favorite. This story would resurface seventeen years later and while on vacation with his family in South Carolina the seed planted in Memphis in 1987 twenty plus years earlier would germinate and he would pen Rainbow Farm. https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Farm-Robert-R-Williams/dp/1645849791 http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/robtwilliams.mp3

Belarus, a former Soviet Country of 10 million has had a pretend democracy since the fall of The Soviet Union. Since 1994 Aleksander Lukashenko has been President. He's stifled free and fair elections and jailed opponents. Until now. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a housewife, and mother of two, whose husband ran for President and was jailed, decided to standup and call for real democracy. She appears to have won the elections, say but was denied victory by Lukashenko who is using the police to arrest and suppress a Belarus Spring. On Back Story host and creator Dana Lewis talks to Belarusian journalist and activist Franack Viacorka and Belarus expert Olga Dryndova from the European Center for Eastern European Studies.What will happen now in Belarus? And is Russia fearing the same call for freedom?

Luka Jukic comes on the podcast to talk with Matt Ellison about his recent reporting in Ukraine and the war for the country's soul. Luka Jukic is a graduate student at the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. He has lived in and reported from many countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Interview with Morgan Murray, author of 'Dirty Birds' from Breakwater Books.Morgan Murray was born and raised on a farm near the same west-central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning (Caroline). He now lives, works, plays, writes, and builds all sorts of crooked furniture in Cape Breton. In between, he has been a professional schemer, a farmer, a rancher, a roustabout, a secretary, a reporter, a designer, a Tweeter, and a student in St. John's, Calgary, Prague, Montreal, Chicoutimi, and Paris. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary, a Certificate in Central and Eastern European Studies from the University of Economics, Prague, a Master of Philosophy in Humanities from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a participation ribbon for beef-calf showmanship (incomplete) from the Little Britches 4-H Club.Originally broadcast on March 23 2020 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at https://www.chmr.ca/This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at https://www.engenbooks.com/Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen Universe signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTThis recording Copyright © 2020 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Morgan Murray, author of 'Dirty Birds' from Breakwater Books.Morgan Murray was born and raised on a farm near the same west-central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning (Caroline). He now lives, works, plays, writes, and builds all sorts of crooked furniture in Cape Breton. In between, he has been a professional schemer, a farmer, a rancher, a roustabout, a secretary, a reporter, a designer, a Tweeter, and a student in St. John's, Calgary, Prague, Montreal, Chicoutimi, and Paris. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary, a Certificate in Central and Eastern European Studies from the University of Economics, Prague, a Master of Philosophy in Humanities from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a participation ribbon for beef-calf showmanship (incomplete) from the Little Britches 4-H Club.Originally broadcast on March 16, 2020 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at https://www.chmr.ca/ This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at https://www.engenbooks.com/Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2020 Matthew LeDrew

Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and it will relieve their minds, he says. Then they will be more inclined to accept what seems a modest project. Whether or not Ward Keeler had this writing strategy firmly in mind when he wrote the preface to The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), it’s the one he adopts, and with the recommended effect. Anticipating that the reader picking up a book on Burma with both “hierarchy” and “masculinity” in its title might be looking for answers to the question of how and why military men dominated the country for so long, and how and why everyone else tolerated them for as long as they did, he tells the reader that he leaves it to them “to speculate as to how such notions as the workings of hierarchy or the location of power ‘above one’s head’ encouraged… members of the former regime to impose control over the nation’s populace with such ferocious complacency”. His own concerns are more immediate and pedestrian, he says. Except, of course, they are much more than that. For as the reader turns the pages they are led through deceptively straightforward descriptions of both street and monastic life, into a theory of hierarchy and a study of masculinity that is at once in conversation with Keeler’s many interlocutors in Burma, and with classics in anthropological inquiry. Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma. Enjoyed this episode? Then you may also like listening to Ward Keeler discuss Guillaume Rozenberg’s The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma, which he translated. Are area studies your thing? Then why not also check out the New Books in Eastern European Studies channel. They’re featuring a lot of great books on topics relevant to Southeast Asian studies. Nick Cheesman is a fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He can be reached at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and it will relieve their minds, he says. Then they will be more inclined to accept what seems a modest project. Whether or not Ward Keeler had this writing strategy firmly in mind when he wrote the preface to The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), it’s the one he adopts, and with the recommended effect. Anticipating that the reader picking up a book on Burma with both “hierarchy” and “masculinity” in its title might be looking for answers to the question of how and why military men dominated the country for so long, and how and why everyone else tolerated them for as long as they did, he tells the reader that he leaves it to them “to speculate as to how such notions as the workings of hierarchy or the location of power ‘above one’s head’ encouraged… members of the former regime to impose control over the nation’s populace with such ferocious complacency”. His own concerns are more immediate and pedestrian, he says. Except, of course, they are much more than that. For as the reader turns the pages they are led through deceptively straightforward descriptions of both street and monastic life, into a theory of hierarchy and a study of masculinity that is at once in conversation with Keeler’s many interlocutors in Burma, and with classics in anthropological inquiry. Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma. Enjoyed this episode? Then you may also like listening to Ward Keeler discuss Guillaume Rozenberg’s The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma, which he translated. Are area studies your thing? Then why not also check out the New Books in Eastern European Studies channel. They’re featuring a lot of great books on topics relevant to Southeast Asian studies. Nick Cheesman is a fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He can be reached at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and it will relieve their minds, he says. Then they will be more inclined to accept what seems a modest project. Whether or not Ward Keeler had this writing strategy firmly in mind when he wrote the preface to The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), it’s the one he adopts, and with the recommended effect. Anticipating that the reader picking up a book on Burma with both “hierarchy” and “masculinity” in its title might be looking for answers to the question of how and why military men dominated the country for so long, and how and why everyone else tolerated them for as long as they did, he tells the reader that he leaves it to them “to speculate as to how such notions as the workings of hierarchy or the location of power ‘above one’s head’ encouraged… members of the former regime to impose control over the nation’s populace with such ferocious complacency”. His own concerns are more immediate and pedestrian, he says. Except, of course, they are much more than that. For as the reader turns the pages they are led through deceptively straightforward descriptions of both street and monastic life, into a theory of hierarchy and a study of masculinity that is at once in conversation with Keeler’s many interlocutors in Burma, and with classics in anthropological inquiry. Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma. Enjoyed this episode? Then you may also like listening to Ward Keeler discuss Guillaume Rozenberg’s The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma, which he translated. Are area studies your thing? Then why not also check out the New Books in Eastern European Studies channel. They’re featuring a lot of great books on topics relevant to Southeast Asian studies. Nick Cheesman is a fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He can be reached at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and it will relieve their minds, he says. Then they will be more inclined to accept what seems a modest project. Whether or not Ward Keeler had this writing strategy firmly in mind when he wrote the preface to The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), it's the one he adopts, and with the recommended effect. Anticipating that the reader picking up a book on Burma with both “hierarchy” and “masculinity” in its title might be looking for answers to the question of how and why military men dominated the country for so long, and how and why everyone else tolerated them for as long as they did, he tells the reader that he leaves it to them “to speculate as to how such notions as the workings of hierarchy or the location of power ‘above one's head' encouraged… members of the former regime to impose control over the nation's populace with such ferocious complacency”. His own concerns are more immediate and pedestrian, he says. Except, of course, they are much more than that. For as the reader turns the pages they are led through deceptively straightforward descriptions of both street and monastic life, into a theory of hierarchy and a study of masculinity that is at once in conversation with Keeler's many interlocutors in Burma, and with classics in anthropological inquiry. Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma. Enjoyed this episode? Then you may also like listening to Ward Keeler discuss Guillaume Rozenberg's The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma, which he translated. Are area studies your thing? Then why not also check out the New Books in Eastern European Studies channel. They're featuring a lot of great books on topics relevant to Southeast Asian studies. Nick Cheesman is a fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He can be reached at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and it will relieve their minds, he says. Then they will be more inclined to accept what seems a modest project. Whether or not Ward Keeler had this writing strategy firmly in mind when he wrote the preface to The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), it’s the one he adopts, and with the recommended effect. Anticipating that the reader picking up a book on Burma with both “hierarchy” and “masculinity” in its title might be looking for answers to the question of how and why military men dominated the country for so long, and how and why everyone else tolerated them for as long as they did, he tells the reader that he leaves it to them “to speculate as to how such notions as the workings of hierarchy or the location of power ‘above one’s head’ encouraged… members of the former regime to impose control over the nation’s populace with such ferocious complacency”. His own concerns are more immediate and pedestrian, he says. Except, of course, they are much more than that. For as the reader turns the pages they are led through deceptively straightforward descriptions of both street and monastic life, into a theory of hierarchy and a study of masculinity that is at once in conversation with Keeler’s many interlocutors in Burma, and with classics in anthropological inquiry. Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma. Enjoyed this episode? Then you may also like listening to Ward Keeler discuss Guillaume Rozenberg’s The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma, which he translated. Are area studies your thing? Then why not also check out the New Books in Eastern European Studies channel. They’re featuring a lot of great books on topics relevant to Southeast Asian studies. Nick Cheesman is a fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He can be reached at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and it will relieve their minds, he says. Then they will be more inclined to accept what seems a modest project. Whether or not Ward Keeler had this writing strategy firmly in mind when he wrote the preface to The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), it’s the one he adopts, and with the recommended effect. Anticipating that the reader picking up a book on Burma with both “hierarchy” and “masculinity” in its title might be looking for answers to the question of how and why military men dominated the country for so long, and how and why everyone else tolerated them for as long as they did, he tells the reader that he leaves it to them “to speculate as to how such notions as the workings of hierarchy or the location of power ‘above one’s head’ encouraged… members of the former regime to impose control over the nation’s populace with such ferocious complacency”. His own concerns are more immediate and pedestrian, he says. Except, of course, they are much more than that. For as the reader turns the pages they are led through deceptively straightforward descriptions of both street and monastic life, into a theory of hierarchy and a study of masculinity that is at once in conversation with Keeler’s many interlocutors in Burma, and with classics in anthropological inquiry. Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma. Enjoyed this episode? Then you may also like listening to Ward Keeler discuss Guillaume Rozenberg’s The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma, which he translated. Are area studies your thing? Then why not also check out the New Books in Eastern European Studies channel. They’re featuring a lot of great books on topics relevant to Southeast Asian studies. Nick Cheesman is a fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He can be reached at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and it will relieve their minds, he says. Then they will be more inclined to accept what seems a modest project. Whether or not Ward Keeler had this writing strategy firmly in mind when he wrote the preface to The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), it’s the one he adopts, and with the recommended effect. Anticipating that the reader picking up a book on Burma with both “hierarchy” and “masculinity” in its title might be looking for answers to the question of how and why military men dominated the country for so long, and how and why everyone else tolerated them for as long as they did, he tells the reader that he leaves it to them “to speculate as to how such notions as the workings of hierarchy or the location of power ‘above one’s head’ encouraged… members of the former regime to impose control over the nation’s populace with such ferocious complacency”. His own concerns are more immediate and pedestrian, he says. Except, of course, they are much more than that. For as the reader turns the pages they are led through deceptively straightforward descriptions of both street and monastic life, into a theory of hierarchy and a study of masculinity that is at once in conversation with Keeler’s many interlocutors in Burma, and with classics in anthropological inquiry. Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma. Enjoyed this episode? Then you may also like listening to Ward Keeler discuss Guillaume Rozenberg’s The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma, which he translated. Are area studies your thing? Then why not also check out the New Books in Eastern European Studies channel. They’re featuring a lot of great books on topics relevant to Southeast Asian studies. Nick Cheesman is a fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He can be reached at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Paul Robinson from the University of Ottawa explains the current state of US-Russia relations. We talk Putin, Trump, Russiagate, media propaganda, the New Arms Race, the Russian economy, and his forthcoming book on Russian conservatism. Websites https://irrussianality.wordpress.com https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/994/profile Publications https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Robinson/e/B001HQ26YE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1549382146&sr=8-3 About the Guest Paul Robinson holds an MA in Russian and Eastern European Studies […]

Dr. Paul Robinson from the University of Ottawa explains the current state of US-Russia relations. We talk Putin, Trump, Russiagate, media propaganda, the New Arms Race, the Russian economy, and his forthcoming book on Russian conservatism. Websites https://irrussianality.wordpress.com https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/994/profile Publications https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Robinson/e/B001HQ26YE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1549382146&sr=8-3 About the Guest Paul Robinson holds an MA in Russian and Eastern European Studies […]

CID Student Ambassador David Pareja interviews Antoine Van Agtmael, Senior Adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics and principal founder, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC. Interview recorded on February 3rd, 2017. About Antoine: Mr. Van Agtmael is a senior adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics, a public policy advisory firm in Washington DC and was the principal Antoine Van Agtmaelfounder, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC (and later chairman of AshmoreEMM), a leading investment management firm for emerging market equities. He was also a founding director of the Strategic Investment GroupSM. Before founding EMM in 1987, Mr. van Agtmael was Deputy Director of the Capital Markets department of the International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), the private sector-oriented affiliate of the World Bank. While at IFC, he coined the term “emerging markets” and founded the IFC Emerging Markets Database. He was also a Division Chief in the World Bank's borrowing operations, Managing Director of Thailand's leading merchant bank TISCO and Vice President at Bankers Trust Company. Mr. van Agtmael is co-author of The Smartest Places on Earth (Public Affairs, March 2016), author of The Emerging Markets Century (Free Press, 2007), Emerging Securities Markets (Euromoney, 1984), and co-editor of The World's Emerging Stock Markets (Probus Publishing, 1992). He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and taught at the Harvard Institute of Politics and Thammasat University, Bangkok. He has lectured widely at universities and other professional audiences around the world. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School, an M.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He is a Board member of The Brookings Institution (and Co-Chair of its International Advisory Council), the NPR Foundation (and until 2013 its Chair and NPR board member), the Smithsonian’s Freer Sackler Gallery, and Magnum Photos. He is also a member of the Yale President’s Council on International Activities and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married and has two children and a grandchild.

Edward Cohn analyzes changes in Communist Party discipline in the Soviet Union from the Eighteenth Party Congress in 1939 through the 1960s in The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime published by Northern Illinois University Press. He focuses on the 20 years after World War II when five to seven million Communists were disciplined by reprimand, demotion or expulsion. Cohn argues that Part leaders became less concerned about class background and ideological purity and more concerned about the needs of the state. As a result, corruption and abuse of position, along with moral degeneracy such as family relations and drunkenness, dominated internal investigations and disciplinary hearings. Cohn draws on a broad range of provincial case files in in Perm, Tver, Saratov, and Kiev, along with archives of the Commission of Party Control in Moscow, to reveal what the Party considered to appropriate behavior for those who carried the high title of Communist. Edward Cohn is Associate Professor of History at Grinnell College and is the the chair of the Russian, Central, and Eastern European Studies concentration (RCEES). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edward Cohn analyzes changes in Communist Party discipline in the Soviet Union from the Eighteenth Party Congress in 1939 through the 1960s in The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime published by Northern Illinois University Press. He focuses on the 20 years after World War II when five to seven million Communists were disciplined by reprimand, demotion or expulsion. Cohn argues that Part leaders became less concerned about class background and ideological purity and more concerned about the needs of the state. As a result, corruption and abuse of position, along with moral degeneracy such as family relations and drunkenness, dominated internal investigations and disciplinary hearings. Cohn draws on a broad range of provincial case files in in Perm, Tver, Saratov, and Kiev, along with archives of the Commission of Party Control in Moscow, to reveal what the Party considered to appropriate behavior for those who carried the high title of Communist. Edward Cohn is Associate Professor of History at Grinnell College and is the the chair of the Russian, Central, and Eastern European Studies concentration (RCEES). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edward Cohn analyzes changes in Communist Party discipline in the Soviet Union from the Eighteenth Party Congress in 1939 through the 1960s in The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime published by Northern Illinois University Press. He focuses on the 20 years after World War II when five to seven million Communists were disciplined by reprimand, demotion or expulsion. Cohn argues that Part leaders became less concerned about class background and ideological purity and more concerned about the needs of the state. As a result, corruption and abuse of position, along with moral degeneracy such as family relations and drunkenness, dominated internal investigations and disciplinary hearings. Cohn draws on a broad range of provincial case files in in Perm, Tver, Saratov, and Kiev, along with archives of the Commission of Party Control in Moscow, to reveal what the Party considered to appropriate behavior for those who carried the high title of Communist. Edward Cohn is Associate Professor of History at Grinnell College and is the the chair of the Russian, Central, and Eastern European Studies concentration (RCEES). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rosalind Green from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex talks about Migration Stories a special event organised for the Polish Arts Festival in Southend in collaboration with the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at University College London.

“Screening Trafficking: Action, Reaction, and Reception,” a lecture on the portrayal of human trafficking in film and its effects on viewers by Yana Hashamova, associate professor of Slavic and director, Center for Slavic & Eastern European Studies, Ohio State University. Part of Global Threats, the UNM International Studies Institute’s fall 2010 lecture series.