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Some might argue that the concept of evil is outdated in our relativistic age. And yet—how can we speak of war crimes, cruelty, or the neglect of human dignity without invoking the word evil? Perhaps it's time to take it seriously again, to revisit the thinkers who have grappled with its meaning. One of them, of course, is Hannah Arendt. This is a conversation about Hannah Arendt and the concept of evil, which took place in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on June 1st, at the Kyiv Book Arsenal—one of the country's major literary events. Despite the ongoing war, the fair was full of people. My guest was Marci Shore, an American intellectual, historian, and university professor. She specializes in 20th-century European intellectual history, with a particular focus on Hannah Arendt. This year, Marci co-curated the Kyiv Book Arsenal's focus topic, alongside Oksana Forostyna. My name is Volodymyr Yermolenko. I'm a Ukrainian philosopher, the editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld, and the president of PEN Ukraine. UkraineWorld is an English language media outlet about Ukraine run by Internews Ukraine, one of the country's leading media NGOs. *** You can support our work at https://www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld Your support is vital, as we increasingly rely on crowdfunding. Even a small monthly donation can make a big difference. You can also help fund our regular volunteer trips to Ukraine's front-line areas, where we provide aid to both soldiers and civilians—mainly by delivering vehicles for the military and books for local communities. To support these efforts, you can donate via PayPal at ukraine.resisting@gmail.com. *** Contents: 00:00 Intro 01:18 Support our work 04:44 Why is Hannah Arendt essential to understanding the 20th and 21st centuries? 06:16 What is Hannah Arendt's concept of 'radical evil'? 07:48 How are people made superfluous? 10:12 How has World War II shaped Arendt's thought? 17:17 From “radical evil” to the “banality of evil”: connecting Arendt's key concepts. 26:34 Marci Shore on the current situation in America 30:46 Thoughts on human dignity 32:14 Is the idea that 'everyone is replaceable' starting to repeat itself? 34:49 Why Sartre's idea of “nothingness” might be dangerous? 42:14 Hannah Arendt: vita activa versus vita contemplativa 50:15 Outro

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Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), NBC News' Matt Bradley, fmr. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair Molly Jong-Fast, Professor of History at Yale University Marci Shore

America is just not that into you anymore, says historian Marci Shore. It's not us — it's them. The Yale professor blames the U.S. for the failed relationship and warns the world that her own country can no longer be counted on to defend democracy, not even within its own borders. Shore has been studying the history of totalitarianism for nearly 30 years. She tells Nahlah Ayed why she relocated to Canada and how her knowledge of Eastern Europe informed her choice.

The New York Times recently published a video op-ed by a group of Yale University professors who say they're leaving the U.S. for jobs at the University of Toronto in the wake of President Donald Trump's return to the White House. While their decisions are all complex and personal, the three professors — Marci Shore; her husband, Timothy Snyder; and their colleague, Jason Stanley — all study authoritarianism, and all warn the U.S. isn't immune from the democratic backsliding seen elsewhere and throughout history. Professor Shore, an expert on the history of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, joins us to talk about how she and her family came to the decision they did.And in headlines: Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the Supreme Court blocked the White House from reviving deportations using a rarely used war-time law, and the Israeli military said its forces had started “extensive ground operations” in Gaza.Show Notes:Watch the NYTimes Video - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fascism.htmlSubscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/3kk4nyz8What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcastFollow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

Tribune de Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder et Jason Stanley dans le New York Times. Tous sont professeurs dans la célèbre université de Yale, membre de l'Ivy League, les plus prestigieuses facs américaines et tous démissionnent pour rejoindre l'Université de Toronto au Canada. Pour l'un, il s'agit de protester contre les atteintes aux libertés de l'administration Trump. Marci Shore, elle, dénonce une « régression brutale de la démocratie américaine » en prenant un exemple très parlant : « Nous sommes comme les passagers du Titanic qui affirment que notre navire ne peut pas couler », « Or, en tant qu'historien, vous savez qu'il n'existe pas de navire indestructible ».Enfin, son époux, Timothy Snyder, lui, estime qu'à Toronto, il pourra enseigner dans une université qui peut « accueillir des discussions sur la liberté ».En bref, nous rapporte le New York Times, si les motivations des trois universitaires diffèrent, tous sont d'accord sur un point : « ignorer ou minimiser les attaques contre l'État de droit est un danger pour la démocratie ».  Netflix peut-il avoir un impact sur les décisions de justice ?Question que pose un éditorial, ce matin, dans le Guardian qui s'intéresse au cas des frères Menendez. Erik et Lyle, condamnés pour avoir tué leurs parents en 1989 et qui ont fait l'objet d'une série à succès sur la plateforme de streaming l'année dernière. Les spectateurs se sont pris d'affection pour les deux hommes. Si bien qu'après 35 ans passés derrière les barreaux, et une condamnation à la prison à vie, un juge a réduit, mardi, leur peine, les rendant éligibles à une libération conditionnelle estimant qu'ils « ont suffisamment fait ces 35 dernières années » pour mériter leur chance de liberté.Pour le Guardian, « il faut une humilité astronomique à la justice pour reconsidérer ses verdicts sur la base de ce qui est, par essence, du divertissement ».En parlant d'écrans, Vogue s'intéresse au Festival de Cannes…Non pas aux films qui y sont présentés, mais aux nouvelles règles vestimentaires imposées aux stars sur le tapis rouge. Le code a changé, lundi, à la veille de l'ouverture du Festival : finie la nudité, les robes aux traines imposantes…Le problème, c'est que les stylistes travaillaient depuis des mois sur les tenues qu'allaient porter les acteurs, les réalisateurs et ont été pris de court : « beaucoup sont vraiment paniqués » confie un critique culturel.D'autres regrettent ce choix : « Cannes est l'un des tapis rouges les plus glamour et les plus excitants, et j'ai toujours adoré voir les robes extravagantes et les pièces haute couture qui ornent les marches du Palais ». Un acteur du monde de la mode, lui s'interroge : « Il faudrait des mesures pour déterminer ce qui est trop long ou trop volumineux dans une robe. Et concernant la nudité, est-ce à la discrétion de chaque invité sur le tapis rouge ? Y aura-t-il des règles précises ? » pour l'instant, tout cela reste flou !On reste dans l'univers artistique avec l'Eurovision…« La géopolitique sous une pluie de paillettes », c'est comme ça que Libération définit le concours de chant. Le journal français s'entretient avec Thomas Duseaux, créateur d'un podcast sur l'Eurovision qui selon lui, se « déringardise » depuis plusieurs années et estime que le concours « est un succès parce qu'il rend les gens heureux ».Le producteur donne aussi la recette pour le remporter : quand « on est devant sa télé et qu'on voit défiler pendant une heure du boum boum, si une chanson calme apporte une respiration, c'est souvent l'émotion qui déclenche les votes » mais « quand de nombreux candidats se disent que c'est l'intimiste qui marche, le public zappe et c'est une proposition pétaradante qui va emporter le morceau ».Alors chanson en piano-voix ou effets spéciaux bluffants cette année ? Quel pays remportera la 69e édition de l'Eurovision ? Réponse samedi soir.

Do dictators rule by death and nihilism? Do they want to make us powerless - and do they succeed? Is today's crisis also our chance? This is an online conversation between Polish philosopher Krzysztof Czyzewski, American historian Marci Shore, Georgian writer Iva Pezuashvili, and Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko. The event was held under the aegis of Dilemma project implemented by the Institute for Central European Strategy with the support of the European Commission Explaining Ukraine is a podcast by UkraineWorld, an English-language media outlet about Ukraine run by Internews Ukraine. You can support our work at https://www.patreon.com/ukraineworld. Your support is crucial as our media increasingly relies on crowdfunding. You can also support our volunteer trips to the front-line areas, where we provide assistance to both soldiers and civilians - mainly by bringing cars for soldiers and books for civilians. You can support our trips via PayPal at ukraine.resisting@gmail.com.

Cult influence can be found everywhere online, including the political sphere we see when we scroll on social media. Understanding how authoritarian control operates is critical in preserving our autonomy and individuality. In this new episode of The Influence Continuum, I talk with Dr. Stephen Kent, professor emeritus of sociology, who taught courses on alternative and sectarian religions. His research concentrates on issues related to harm caused by groups to individuals and society. It would be a mistake to call sounding the alarms reactionary. Yale scholars like Jason Stanley, Timothy Snyder, and Marci Shore, experts on fascism and propaganda, have left Yale to teach at the University of Toronto in Canada. They cite the rise of authoritarian structures in the United States as their reason for doing so. Our conversation draws lines between our collective decades of research into high-control groups and today's authoritarian movements, disinformation wars, and the dangerous erosion of democratic norms. While these subjects once felt primarily like niche academic work, terms like “cults” and “authoritarian control” have become central to understanding our political world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The turmoil and changes of the past five years — from the coronavirus pandemic to the second Trump administration — make clear one basic fact: the post Cold War era is over. It could be that happened already in 2008, in the financial crisis, or it could be in 2014 when Russia invaded Ukraine and took the Crimean peninsula from it. It could be any consequential date that marked a change, a clear change, from before and after. But whichever date or event is chosen, it is clear a change of times, of eras has happened — and that the cascade of events we are living through is an historic time.To explore the meaning of this term, as well as the reality of living through it, Ilana Bet-El is joined by Professor Marci Shore of Yale University — who is definitely someone who can help examine and explain these core issues. A cultural historian of Eastern Europe who also found and finds herself drawn to the current conflict in Ukraine and works to aid the Ukrainians. An American using her understanding of Europe to analyse events in the US. A writer and deep thinker who helps us all understand this period of time in another dimension.A strong sharp conversation about the past, the present, history and reality.This episode was recorded on 30 April 2025ChaptersWhat defines an historic time?The difference between historical eventsWhat does a real revolution feel like?Is Ukraine living in historic time?Reading the current US situation as an historianMentionsMarci Shore's articles and essaysHer essay “With Shestov in Ukraine”, Liberties Journal of Culture and PoliticsHer book “The Ukrainian Night”Jan KarskiDocumentary Shoah“In Kyiv, we discuss philosophy, poetry and air raid siren protocol,” co-authored with Amelia M. Glaser, CNN (29 March 2024);Nataliya Gumenyuk, Angelina Kariakina, Janice SteinPoem “A song on the End of the World”, Czeslaw MiloszCreditsProduction: Florence FerrandoMusic: Let Good Times Roll Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With academics leaving the US, funding cuts looming over universities for alleged failures to combat antisemitism, and foreign students facing deportation for pro-Palestinian activism, the Trump administration’s policies are being felt at colleges across the United States. What’s behind the fixation on universities and what will be its long term impact on higher education in the US? In this episode: Marci Shore (@marci_shore), Professor of History, Yale University Episode credits: This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Sonia Bhagat and Tamara Khandaker with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Marcos Bartolome, Chloe K. Li, Kisaa Zehra, Remas AlHawari, Melanie Marich and our guest host Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Instagram, X, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

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Under Trump, the US has gone from being an abusive partner, to potentially an adversary of the west, of freedom and democracy. ----------Marci Shore is an American professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Marci is author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, and of The Taste of Ashes, a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's Eastern Europe. But today we will be discussing her most recent book, about the Revolution of Dignity – The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. ----------LINKS:https://twitter.com/marci_shorehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marci_Shorehttps://jackson.yale.edu/person/marci-shore/https://history.yale.edu/people/marci-shorehttps://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300276831/the-ukrainian-night/https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/marci-shore-on-revolution-of-dignity/----------BOOKS:The Taste of AshesThe Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrashttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Timothy Snyder came to Kharkiv on September 8th, 2024, despite regular strikes on the city by Russian bombs, missiles, and drones. Our conversation was focused on freedom and values, which are the key topics of his latest book, "On Freedom", published on September 17th. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460254/on-freedom-by-snyder-timothy/9781847928054 Kharkiv is Ukraine's second-largest city, located some 40 kilometers from the Russian border. The city is hit almost daily by Russian glide bombs, missiles, and drones, mostly hitting civilian buildings and causing casualties among civilians. Despite this, Kharkiv remains one of the key centers of Ukrainian cultural life. Our conversation took place in an underground shelter, to ensure safety against possible Russian attacks. For safety reasons, the audience was carefully selected by invitation, without public announcements. Despite the dangers, about a hundred Kharkiv artists, writers, journalists, students, and university instructors came, with many of them contributing questions. The cooperation of several organizations made this meeting happen: UkraineWorld (Internews Ukraine), the Kharkiv Literature Museum, Kharkiv Media Hub, PEN Ukraine, Art Area, and the Public Interest Journalism Lab. The meeting was moderated by Volodymyr Yermolenko, chief editor of UkraineWorld and president of PEN Ukraine. Listen on various platforms: li.sten.to/explaining-ukraine This is an English-only version of this conversation. Watch it in English AND Ukrainian here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A37SHxcCYS0 Ця версія розмови - англійською. Подивитися і послухати її англійською з УКРАЇНСЬКИМ перекладом можна тут: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A37SHxcCYS0 UkraineWorld is a multi-lingual media about Ukraine brought to you by Internews Ukraine. Other conversations with Timothy Snyder by UkraineWorld: Timothy Snyder: Freedom as a Value and a Task - a Talk in Kyiv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LkXsW14qJQ&t=722s Timothy Snyder: Ukraine, the War, and the Plurality of Values https://youtu.be/BHksNrj7elQ?si=YhU-S4QbSsFrm7Pc Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Volodymyr Yermolenko at Yale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRRduBjkdxw&t=933s Support our work: patreon.com/ukraineworld Support our volunteer trips to the warzones on PayPal: ukraine.resisting@gmail.com

This episode of Matryoshka of Lies uncovers Russia's brutal colonial history in Alaska, marked by massacres, enslavement, and resource extraction from Indigenous populations, as highlighted by journalist Casey Michel. Filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski urges Ukrainians to confront their complicity in Moscow's colonial past, emphasizing that dismantling the Russian Federation is crucial to ending this legacy. Radynski also highlights global dependence on fossil fuels from Russia's colonized territories, which fuels both empire and the climate crisis. Historian Marci Shore examines the role of Russian people in failing to resist expansionist aggression, while drawing hope from Ukraine's student-led movement to confront the past and build a better future.Dive into "Matryoshka of Lies" with Maksym Eristavi, author of the illustrated guidebook "Russian Colonialism 101," and Ukrainska Pravda. Unveil the hidden truths and discover the power of untold indigenous stories.This show is written by Yev Kopiika and Vlada Toporkova, produced by Alina Poliakova, mixed and sound design by Anastasiia Fedoskina, and co-produced and narrated by Maksym Eristavi.Consider subscribing on a platform that is convenient for you: https://pod.link/1729375002Support the journalism of Ukrainska Pravda. Learn how at https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/

Ukrajinci jsou na východní frontě pod silným tlakem a Rusové vytrvale také dál ničí ukrajinskou infrastrukturu. Kyjev mezitím žádá Západ o další pomoc, o níž prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj ve Spojených státech jednal s prezidentem Joem Bidenem i oběma jeho možnými nástupci. „Sledovala jsem jeho tiskovou konferenci s Donaldem Trumpem a říkala si, jakému ponížení se pro dobro své země vystavuje. Ale chápala jsem, proč to dělá,“ komentuje americká historička Marci Shore.

Ukrajinci jsou na východní frontě pod silným tlakem a Rusové vytrvale také dál ničí ukrajinskou infrastrukturu. Kyjev mezitím žádá Západ o další pomoc, o níž prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj ve Spojených státech jednal s prezidentem Joem Bidenem i oběma jeho možnými nástupci. „Sledovala jsem jeho tiskovou konferenci s Donaldem Trumpem a říkala si, jakému ponížení se pro dobro své země vystavuje. Ale chápala jsem, proč to dělá,“ komentuje americká historička Marci Shore.Všechny díly podcastu Interview Plus můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

In a Soviet-era bunker in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, a Ukrainian soldier reads books by the late historian Tony Judt and wonders: Is it possible to make the world better amidst evil? Not long after, Yale historian Marci Shore, a former peacenik, finds herself pleading to the German government to send lethal weapons to Ukraine. What's happening here? How does one historian's words support a courageous defense of democracy that, in turn, inspires another historian to step outside of her comfort zone and into a debate about war?In this week's episode of How My View Grew, the second-to-last of season one, Marci Shore joins me to explore these questions. The story she shares is about choosing to take moral responsibility rather than ignoring evil or rationalizing it away, even if this means risking friendship, status, or your own sense of identity. Her story is also about tapping the lessons of history to see future scenarios you otherwise might miss or consider impossible. And it's about postmodernism—both the new capacities it offers and, when stretched to an extreme, the disasters it produces.The episode draws from Shore's book, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, as well as Judt's books, Thinking the Twentieth Century, written with Timothy Snyder, and Past Imperfect.**Key takeaways**6:00 Judt's harsh critique of French intellectuals' silence about the show trials and other Soviet terror17:00 The alternative to silence and rationalization: taking moral responsibility20:00 There is a difference between good and evil, and between truth and lies25:00 A Ukrainian soldier reading Judt's books in a bunker30:00 Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump, and the evasion of responsibility33:30 Why liberals struggle to grasp nihilism and mass murder40:00 World War I was, before it occurred, unimaginable46:00 Historians can't predict the future, but they describe what can happen50:00 Amiel's reflections**Resources**"Reading Tony Judt in Wartime Ukraine," Marci Shore's essay in The New Yorker.Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt with Timothy SnyderPast Imperfect: French Intellectuals 1944-1956 by Tony JudtThe Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution**Subscribe to...

A conversation about Ukraine, the Russian invasion, resistance, ideas, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things, - held during Volodymyr Yermolenko's visit to Yale University in February 2024. Timothy Snyder is an American historian and Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Marci Shore is an American historian and associate professor at Yale University. Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, chief editor of UkraineWorld and president of PEN Ukraine. Let us thank Yale University and Ukraine House at Yale for organizing this discussion and helping us to publish its recording. UkraineWorld (ukraineworld.org) is brought to you by Internews Ukraine, one of the largest Ukrainian media NGOs. Listen on various platforms: https://li.sten.to/explaining-ukraine Support us at patreon.com/ukraineworld. We provide exclusive content for our patrons. You can also support our volunteer trips to the frontlines at PayPal: ukraine.resisting@gmail.com.

Tonight on The Last Word: House Republicans continue to hold up Ukraine aid. Also, Donald Trump ramps up anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of November. Plus, the economy adds 303,000 jobs in March. And the No Labels group ends its push to find a presidential candidate to challenge Pres. Biden and Donald Trump. Adm. James Stavridis, Marci Shore, Rep. Robert Garcia, Robert Reich, and Rahna Epting join Ali Velshi.

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Marci Shore asks the vital question: What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. The Maidan was an illumination of the human capacity for natality, the ability to act, to begin anew at this moment. It was the turning point without which Ukrainian resistance to the full-scale Russian invasion cannot be understood. ---------- Marci Shore is an American professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Marci is author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, and of The Taste of Ashes, a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's Eastern Europe. But today we will be discussing her most recent book, about the Revolution of Dignity – The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/marci_shore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marci_Shore https://jackson.yale.edu/person/marci-shore/ https://history.yale.edu/people/marci-shore https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300276831/the-ukrainian-night/ https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/marci-shore-on-revolution-of-dignity/ ---------- BOOKS: The Taste of Ashes The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, novelist, journalist, and veteran Matt Gallagher joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss the current state of the Russo-Ukrainian war and why the country desperately needs the emergency aid in a bill currently under consideration in Congress. Gallagher, whose new novel Daybreak is set in Ukraine, weighs in on where the U.S. stands on the war by comparing it to military conflicts of the past, from World War II to more recent involvements in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. He also reflects on how reporting and training civilians in Ukraine influenced Daybreak, in which an Army veteran explores his own motivations for aiding the country's fight for freedom as well as the flawed, messy realities of war. He reads from the novel.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Matt Gallagher Daybreak Empire City Youngblood “This is no time to give up on Ukraine” by Matt Gallagher | Boston Globe “There Are Only Two Options Left in Ukraine” by Matt Gallagher | Esquire, Nov. 20, 2023 “The Secret Weapons of Ukraine” by Matt Gallagher | Esquire, Feb. 23, 2023 “My Advice for American Veterans Who Want to Get On a Plane to Ukraine” by Matt Gallagher | The New York Times, April 10, 2022 “Notes from Lviv” by Matt Gallagher | Esquire, March 31, 2022 Others: “Ukraine is resorting to attacking Russia with small drones because it's running out of artillery ammunition” by Tom Porter | Business Insider “Ukraine and Israel Aid Bill Inches Ahead as Divided G.O.P. Demands Changes” by Karoun Demirjian | The New York Times, 2024 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman The Forever War by Dexter Wilkins “What Should a War Movie Do?” by Whitney Terrell | The New Republic, Nov. 21, 2016 Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1, Episode 1: The Art of Taking a Knee: Colin Kaepernick Edition Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 4, Episode 13: Cancellation or Consequences? Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 5, Episode 9: Anton Troianovski and Marci Shore on a Possible Russian Invasion of Ukraine  Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 6, Episode 2: How Dostoevsky's Classic Has Shaped Russia's War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine's Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 6, Episode 51: Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vzpoura žoldáků z Wagnerovy skupiny vyvolala mnoho otázek ohledně toho, jak pevně ve skutečnosti drží moc Vladimir Putin. Propaganda ho po léta vykreslovala jako člověka, za něhož nemá Rusko náhradu – stejná propaganda také připravovala půdu pro invazi na Ukrajinu. „Ve skutečnosti nevíme, co se odehrává v myslích lidí v Rusku. Snažíme se to usilovně nějak zjistit, ale z Ruska se stala jakási černá skříňka,“ poznamenává americká historička Marci Shore.Všechny díly podcastu Interview Plus můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

The people of Ukraine are facing down a military giant. Their unity and bravery in the bloody, cruel year since the Russia invasion are an inspiration to the rest of the world.Instead of talking about politics or the state of the war, we consider the battlefield of ideas. Above all this show is an attempt to put the war into context: What's at stake for Western democracy, and what space does Ukraine fit in our history? We speak again with Marci Shore, professor of European cultural & intellectual history at Yale University. She first appeared on "How Do We Fix It?" a year ago. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current book project, a history of phenomenology in East-Central Europe, tentatively titled “Eyeglasses Floating in Space: Central European Encounters That Came about While Searching for Truth.” Her most recent book is “The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution”. This show is a companion piece to episode #380 with Jacob Mchangama.We hear a very thoughtful, passionate account of the war. "These are my friends and colleagues who are being slaughtered," Marci Shore tell us."That is first and foremost why the war is so personal for me." She describes the war as "the decisive end of what Francis Fukuyama had called the end of history."Marci is Jewish, and a well-known scholar of Eastern Europe in the post-Soviet era. As a young child she listened to elderly relatives who had once been victims of Tsarist pogroms— riots aimed at expelling and killing Jews and other members of ethnic or religious groups in a region that includes present-day Ukraine. She tells us why "Ukraine has emerged as a subject and not an object in world consciousness."In this episode we also discuss the work of The Reckoning Project— a coalition of human rights activists, journalists and archivists who are using the power of story-telling and legal accountability to document truth. The project has uncovered evidence and is conducting first-person interviews about Russian abuses and cruelty in occupied parts of Ukraine. Recommendation: Jim is looking at the extraordinary work of photojournalist Lynsey Addario and others who risk their lives to capture vital moments during the wars. Her work photos have been published by The New York Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marci Shore is an American historian and associate professor at Yale University, where she teaches modern European intellectual history. She is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968; The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher and chief editor of UkraineWorld, speaks to Marci Shore about the importance of Central and Eastern Europe for the world's culture, the problem of evil, the origins of Russian cruelty, and about contemporary Ukrainian writing. UkraineWorld is brought to you by Internews Ukraine, one of the oldest Ukrainian media NGOs. Support us at patreon.com/ukraineworld. Support our humanitarian trips to the frontline areas: Paypal - ukraine.resisting@gmail.com

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Znakomita książka o relacjach pomiędzy częścią polskich poetów międzywojnia, a marksizmem (a później - komunizmem). Znakomita książka!(00:15) Dzień dobry(00:25) Zamiast wstępu(04:10) O czym jest książka?(07:30) Nieco o futuryzmie (11:05) Książka bez ocen(16:15) Zamiast zakończenia(20:50) Do usłyszenia!

What can be that breaking point in a person's life? Class 20 brings us to Maidan and the Self-Understanding that resulted. Guest lecturer is Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History at Yale University. Marci Shore, Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin … Read More Read More

Trochę pamiętnik, trochę zapiski, trochę historia, trochę reportaż, trochę esej... A na końcu, bardzo osobista opowieść o Europie Wschodniej (według Marci Shore). A według mnie - o Europie Środkowej. Zapraszam do posłuchania o książce Marci Shore "Smak popiołów". (00:15) Dzień dobry!(00:25) Zamiast wstępu(05:00) Dwa słowa o książce(11:45) Spojrzenie z zewnątrz(16:40) Jak zmienił mnie "Smak popiołów"(20:55) Zamiast podsumowania(22:05) Do usłyszenia!

 discussion with two experts in Slavic culture and history, exploring history and current realities of Slavic women in the times of the Ukrainian invasion, as well as the prior invasion of Chechnya and the protests in Belarus.Topics covered are the history and tradition of Slavic feminism leading anti-authoritarian movements, the connection between this war and culture of violence and domestic abuse, how women are participating in the fighting, and ways women are being victimized by the current war.Trigger warning, this program discusses violence, torture, and sexual abuse.Dr. Colleen Lucey is Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a specialist in Russian literature and visual culture of the long nineteenth century, and has published on works by both canonical writers (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy) and the texts of their lesser-known contemporaries (Avdot'ia Panaeva, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia). In addition to the representation of commercial sex in literature and art, her research and teaching interests include the history of Russian theatre and performance (from the nineteenth century to the present), and Russian language instruction.Dr. Marci Shore teaches modern European intellectual history at Yale University. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D from Stanford University in 2001; she taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She is the translator of Micha Gowiskis The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generations Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current book project, a history of phenomenology in East-Central Europe, tentatively titled Eyeglasses Floating in Space: Central European Encounters That Came about While Searching for Truth. She is a regular visiting fellow at the Institut fr die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.   | Dr. Colleen Lucey and Dr. 

In this episode we are asking what one can learn by looking at Ukraine from America. Our guest for this episode is Marci Shore, American historian and scholar, associate professor at Yale University where she teaches modern European intellectual history. She has written, among other works, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. Host: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher and chief editor of UkraineWorld.org. UkraineWorld is brought to you by Internews Ukraine. Support us on patreon.com/ukraineworld

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Historia Ukrainy naznaczona jest takimi wydarzeniami jak Hołodomor w latach trzydziestych ubiegłego wieku, okupacja niemiecka w latach czterdziestych i późniejsze represje stalinowskie. Teraz Rosjanie starają się zniszczyć ukraiński przemysł rolniczy, wywożą ludzi z terenów Ukrainy na Syberię, mordują, gwałcą... Skąd bierze się rosyjskie okrucieństwo w Ukrainie? Jak na tę sytuację reagują zwykli Rosjanie? Jak reagują Amerykanie i reszta świata? Rozmawiamy z profesor Marci Shore, amerykańską historyczką, znawczynią Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej, wykładowczynią Uniwersytetu Yale. Na podcast zaprasza Bartosz T. Wieliński. Więcej podcastów na https://wyborcza.pl/podcast. Piszcie do nas w każdej sprawie na listy@wyborcza.pl.

The war in Ukraine and the global response to Russia's invasion are dominating the news. But missing in much of the coverage is a sense of the country and its people. In this historic moment, we hear a riveting account of the country's recent political awakening and why Ukrainians are prepared to resist and fight.In the past century, Ukraine suffered massively during two world wars, Nazi occupation, famine, and the Chernobyl disaster. Eight years ago, during the "Revolution of Dignity", Ukranians stood up against corruption, brutality, and Russian dominance. A new democracy and civic bond were formed. The country profoundly changed."Ukranians are fighting for all of us," says our guest, Yale University historian Marci Shore, the author of “The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution.” She is a scholar of Eastern Europe in the post-Soviet era. "I'm terrified for my friends," Marci tells us. "The Ukrainians will not give up... I'm desperately hopeful that as difficult as the odds are, they are going to prevail."Recommendations for further reading about the war and today's Ukraine: Yarolav Trofimo, the Wall Street Journal's Chief foreign correspondent, now in Kiev. Phil Stewart of Reuters and his newsfeed on Twitter, coverage from CNN's Clarissa Ward, Anderson Cooper, and Alex Marquardt in Ukraine. Background and perspective in The Economist.Additional InformationHow Do We Fix It? PodcastMore shows from The Democracy Group

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The war in Ukraine and the global response to Russia's invasion are dominating the news. But missing in much of the coverage is a sense of the country and its people. In this historic moment, we hear a riveting account of the country's recent political awakening and why Ukrainians are prepared to resist and fight.In the past century, Ukraine suffered massively during two world wars, Nazi occupation, famine, and the Chernobyl disaster. Eight years ago, during the "Revolution of Dignity", Ukranians stood up against corruption, brutality, and Russian dominance. A new democracy and civic bond were formed. The country profoundly changed."Ukranians are fighting for all of us," says our guest, Yale University historian Marci Shore, the author of “The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution.” She is a scholar of Eastern Europe in the post-Soviet era. "I'm terrified for my friends," Marci tells us. "The Ukrainians will not give up... I'm desperately hopeful that as difficult as the odds are, they are going to prevail."Recommendations for further reading about the war and today's Ukraine: Yarolav Trofimo, the Wall Street Journal's Chief foreign correspondent, now in Kiev. Phil Stewart of Reuters and his newsfeed on Twitter, coverage from CNN's Clarissa Ward, Anderson Cooper, and Alex Marquardt in Ukraine. Background and perspective in The Economist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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New York Times Moscow bureau chief Anton Troianovski and Yale historian Marci Shore join hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. Troianovski discusses his reporting on the recent talks between the U.S. and Russia, contextualizes Russia's unusual demands, and considers the odds of a diplomatic solution. Shore lays out the Ukrainian political history that helped set the stage for current tensions, explains how Trump learned from Putin's efforts to subvert Ukrainian elections, and recommends favorite Ukrainian writers. The episode also features Reginald Dwayne Betts reading Serhiy Zhadan's poem “Headphones,” which he selected for inclusion in The New York Times Magazine. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at our Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected readings: Anton Troianovski U.S. and Russia Take More Measured Stance in Ukraine Talks - The New York Times Articles by Anton Troianovski in The New York Times Marci Shore Ukrainian Corruption Is Trump's Native Language | Foreign Policy The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart | The New Yorker The Poet Laureate of Hybrid War | Foreign Policy Others: Poem: Headphones - The New York Times Seven dillweeds | Eurozine Mondegreen — Volodymyr Rafeyenko | Harvard University Press Words for War Greetings from Novorossiya - University of Pittsburgh Press ​​​​Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English ‹ Literary Hub “We're All Russian, Now,” featuring Sana Krasikov and Charles Baxter (Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1, Episode 4) Frank Foer Immanuel Kant The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan Reginald Dwayne Betts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ameryka nigdy nie była taka, jaką ją sobie wyobrażali mieszkańcy komunistycznych krajów europejskich. To jest kraj zbudowany na niewolnictwie. Poziom rasizmu jest niewyobrażalny i skrajna bieda - mówi prof. Marci Shore, badaczka postprawdy, historyczka z Uniwersytetu Yale.

Prieš kurį laiką su Lenkijoje veikiančio Paribio fondo įkūrėju Krzysztofu Czyzewskiu kalbėjausi apie tai, ką jis remdamasis poetu Adomu Mickevičiumis vadina „zbójeckie książki“ – rizikingomis knygomis, kurios keičia žmonių gyvenimus. Anot jo, tokių autorių kaip Czeslawas Miloszas, Tadeuszas Konwickis, Tomas Venclova ar kitų, kalbančių apie paribio žmonių pasaulėjautą, etosą, knygų skaitymas yra asmenybę perkeičianti patirtis. Ši patirtis jį patį paskatino ne tik įkurti Paribio fonde, tačiau ir jame organizuoti kiekvieną vasarą vykstančius „Kito skaitymus“, kuriuose ir būtų nagrinėjamos šios rizikingos knygos.Taip kiekvieną rugpjūtį Krasnogrūdoje susiburdavo jaunimas iš Lenkijos, Ukrainos, Lietuvos ir kitų valstybių, kad vadovaujami paties Krzysztofo ir istorikų Timothy Snyderio bei Marci Shore skaitytų tokių autorių kaip Tony Judtas, Czeslowas Miloszas, Hannah Arendt, Zygmuntas Baumanas, Leszekas Kolakowskis, Leonidas Donskis tekstus. Skaitytų ir kartu ieškotų išeičių, kurios leistų peržengti mus šiandien skiriančias sienas, spręsti kylančias įtampas. Būtent per „Kito skaitymus“ susibičiuliavau su dviem istorikais – Povilu Andriumi Stepavičiumi ir Vytautu Starikovičiumi. Kadangi šiemet dėl COVID-19 pandemijos „Kito skaitymai“ nevyko, tai su Povilu ir Vytautu susitikome LRT Klasika studijoje tam, kad pratęstume diskusijas apie paribio žmogaus tapatybę, toleranciją, intelektualų atsakomybę šiandienos poliarizuojančių konfliktų kontekste ir, be abejo, rizikingas knygas.Ved. Donatas Puslys

The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture was given by Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2001; and since 2004 has regularly been a visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current project titled “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe.” The lecture was hosted by the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and chaired by Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies.

"'Likes' don't count," was the rallying cry that first brought people to the Maidan. In this remarkable conversation, Marci Shore explores what it means "to experience revolution in your own skin": the human transformation, blurring of time, and destroying of boundaries during this "extraordinary coming together of men, of women, of young people, of old people, of Jews, of Armenians, of Russian speakers, of Ukrainian speakers."

"'Likes' don't count," was the rallying cry that first brought people to the Maidan. In this remarkable conversation, Marci Shore explores what it means "to experience revolution in your own skin": the human transformation, blurring of time, and destroying of boundaries during this "extraordinary coming together of men, of women, of young people, of old people, of Jews, of Armenians, of Russian speakers, of Ukrainian speakers."

My guest is Marci Shore. Marci teaches European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University. She's the author on numerous books, most recently The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. (https://www.amazon.com/Ukrainian-Night-Intimate-History-Revolution/dp/0300218680) In this lyrical and intimate book, she evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced. Special Guest: Marci Shore.

-Written & Narrated by Peter BejgerTruth and lies. Facts and fiction. Reality and the unreal.In today’s unsettled, and often bizarre, media landscape the very definition of these basic terms takes on an urgent meaning. How they are defined—and more importantly, who has the power to define them—shapes the political climate.And the resulting political climate can force citizens to confront unpleasant ethical choices.These fundamental issues were tackled by the American historian Marci Shore in her recent inaugural address to the Lviv Media Forum 2017.Dr. Shore is an associate professor of history at Yale University in the United States. She is the author of The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe.She also wrote Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, and translated Michal Glowinski‘s Holocaust memoir The Black Seasons.She writes frequently for the international press on European cultural and intellectual history.Dr. Shore has devoted the last few years of her academic work and journalism to Ukraine. She is the author of the forthcoming book on the Maidan called The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. This book, as well as her recent talk in Lviv, ultimately asks the question: What is worth living—and dying—for?Dr. Shore’s speech in Lviv was called “The Power of the Powerless” and opens with the paradoxical remark that so many of her friends in Ukraine wanted their country to be more like the United States. In other words, for Ukraine to become a liberal democracy.But, times have changed. We now have, Shore points out, the irony of “post-factuality” moving today from East to West, from Moscow to Washington.Shore’s Lviv talk focused on former Czech dissident, and eventual president, Vaclav Havel’s 1978 essay, “The Power of the Powerless.” She reminds us of the meaning of his moral imperative “to live in truth.” Havel believed that “living in truth” meant speaking the truth.But living the truth in the repressive conditions of 1970s communism in Eastern Europe was risky. So most people were “living a lie.” But Havel believed that living a lie did not make empirical truth disappear from the world. He believed in the reality of truth and the stable distinction between truth and lies. For Havel, one might choose to live an inauthentic life, that is, “to "to live a lie.” But this doesn't make empirical truth go away. For Václav Havel, the ethical imperative was to reclaim one’s authentic self.Dr. Shore’s writing has pointed out that new moral challenges emerged after the fall of communism. These challenges include the rise of populism. The triumph of the market economy enthroned the superficiality of the everyday. In this triumph Vaclav Havel saw the development a of consumerist global civilization that grows a mass of people who do not create any values.And in Putin’s Russia, we see the cynical postmodernism of a regime where nothing is real and everything is possible. Shore’s Lviv talk noted we have many alternate realities that can be explained in many ways. This creates a feeling like a true reality does not exist.Dr. Shore believes one challenge stands before everyone now: How to find the truth in a post-fact world. She has thought a lot about the meaning of truth and lies during the Communist era and in postmodern society. At the Lviv Media Forum she wanted to hear from older journalists, whose experience gained in communist times may have a special educational value today. She wanted to discover what journalists and writers see is similar and different in Soviet propaganda and PR in the “post-truth” era.It may be the most startling irony, but Dr. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Marci Shore, assistant professor of history, reads from her award-winning book ""Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968". In "Caviar and Ashes," historian Marci Shore tells the story of a group of the young Polish intellectuals who became radical Marxists in the late 1920s, following their tragic journey through Stalinist terror, Nazi genocide and beyond.