Podcast appearances and mentions of william taubman

In the concluding episode of our series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, we trace how a tentative compromise coincided with the most dangerous moments of the stand-off, in an exchange of letters that threatened disaster. Elinor Evans speaks to expert historians Alex von Tunzelmann, Mark White and William Taubman to find out how the crisis reached a resolution, and the diplomatic fall-out from the 13 days. Plus, we track revelations that have come to light in the 60 years since the world was brought to the edge of a nuclear war. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the third episode of our series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, we chart the first phase of the Cold War standoff. Elinor Evans speaks to expert historians Alex von Tunzelmann, Mark White and William Taubman to uncover how top-secret meetings descended into chaos, the American public was plunged into panic and a US naval ‘quarantine' threatened to push the Soviets to the brink. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 1961 Bay of Pigs operation was a debacle for the United States that inflamed Cold War tensions to a new height. In the second episode of our series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Elinor Evans speaks to expert historians Alex von Tunzelmann, Mark White and William Taubman to find out how the failed invasion set the stage for Khrushchev and Castro to form a pact that would lead the world to the brink of nuclear destruction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How did the world end up on the brink of nuclear disaster? In the first episode of our series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Elinor Evans speaks to expert historians Alex von Tunzelmann, Mark White and William Taubman to explore the roots of the nuclear standoff, tracking the rise in tensions during the Cold War and introducing the key players in the looming confrontation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times. The post Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Today, Jeremi and Zachary discuss the significance and legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev and his political career with professor, author, and political scientist Dr. William Taubman. Zachary reads his poem, "What Mikhail Thought of." This episode of This is Democracy was mixed and mastered by Morgan Honaker.

The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. He remains a divisive figure praised by those who value the freedoms that millions of Soviet citizens gained after his reforms, but condemned by those in Russia who believe he allowed the fall of an empire. We hear more from his biographer, William Taubman, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies' senior fellow Gerard DiPippo. The Chinese leader Xi Jinping has started his march to renew his rule for another five years, an unprecedented move since the times of Mao Zedong. But as the economy slows down and Covid lockdowns continue to spring up, could there be any opposition to Xi's plans? We ask Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, in the United States. California's Senate has passed what is known as the Fast Food Bill, which gives workers at restaurants like Starbucks and McDonald's the right to negotiate with government and their employers. We talk to Mary Kay Henry, international president of Service Employees International Union. Serena Williams's upcoming retirement is making many of her fans wonder what the future awaits for one of the biggest female stars in tennis. Having built a brand around her persona, it won't be long until we hear from her again, as Nancy Spencer, a Professor at the Sport Management Program in Bowling Green State University, tells us. Roger Hearing is joined throughout the programme by guests in opposite sides of the world: Diane Brady, assistant managing editor at Forbes, in New York, and David Quo, financial analyst and co-founder of the Smart Investor, in Singapore. (Picture: Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Picture credit: Reuters)

Iain McGregor's book is a powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin. East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, twenty bunkers, and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next twenty-eight years, at least five thousand people attempted to smash through it, swim across it, tunnel under it, or fly over it. In November 1989, the East German leadership buckled in the face of a civil revolt that culminated in half a million East Berliners demanding an end to the ban on free movement. The world's media flocked to capture the moment which, perhaps more than any other, signaled the end of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie had been the epicenter of global conflict for nearly three decades.Iain McGregor is a successful editor of non fiction for major publishing houses, working with talented and bestselling historians such as Michael Wood, Sir Simon Schama, William Taubman, Alice Roberts and John Nichol – as well as publishing tie-ins with archives and podcasts such as the Imperial War Museum and R4's ‘In Our Time' series with Melvyn Bragg. He is also a writer and public speaker on modern history and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Jane Freeland is a historian of feminism and gender in modern Germany at the German Historical Institute London.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Iain McGregor's book is a powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin. East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, twenty bunkers, and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next twenty-eight years, at least five thousand people attempted to smash through it, swim across it, tunnel under it, or fly over it. In November 1989, the East German leadership buckled in the face of a civil revolt that culminated in half a million East Berliners demanding an end to the ban on free movement. The world's media flocked to capture the moment which, perhaps more than any other, signaled the end of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie had been the epicenter of global conflict for nearly three decades.Iain McGregor is a successful editor of non fiction for major publishing houses, working with talented and bestselling historians such as Michael Wood, Sir Simon Schama, William Taubman, Alice Roberts and John Nichol – as well as publishing tie-ins with archives and podcasts such as the Imperial War Museum and R4's ‘In Our Time' series with Melvyn Bragg. He is also a writer and public speaker on modern history and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Jane Freeland is a historian of feminism and gender in modern Germany at the German Historical Institute London.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

La noche del 9 de noviembre de 1989, una decisión burocrática puso fin al siglo XX. Apenas pasadas las 23.30, los guardias fronterizos de Alemania Oriental ejecutaron la orden aprobada horas antes por el Politburó que autorizaba la «salida permanente» de los ciudadanos del país y permitieron que una multitud de berlineses orientales atravesaran la frontera de forma pacífica y se encaramaran, junto con otros tantos occidentales, a la muralla que los había dividido durante casi tres décadas. La Unión Soviética sobreviviría dos años, la Guerra Fría había terminado. En «Gorbachov» (Debate), la biografía del último líder soviético que con sus reformas políticas quiso transformar el comunismo para salvarlo y terminó precipitando su final, el ganador del Pulitzer William Taubman revela que aquel desenlace era el «sueño oculto» de Gorby: «despertar una mañana y enterarse de que el muro había caído por su propio peso».Encuentra este y otros artículos en http://revistalengua.comTexto narrado por Antonio Martínez Asensio.Crédito Imagen ilustrativa: Getty Images. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In part two, Ben and Dr. Taubman discuss Khrushchev's time in power and his ultimate downfall. Dr. Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2003). He is also the author of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, Moscow Spring (with Jane Taubman) and Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War.

In part one of this two-part episode, Ben and Dr. William Taubman examine the improbable rise to power of 20th century Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev. Dr. Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2003). He is also the author of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, Moscow Spring (with Jane Taubman) and Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War.

Thank you everyone for tuning into Written In Blood History, now part of the Evergreen podcast network. Thank you especially to those of you who leave me reviews and donate on Patreon. I am forever in your debt. I think Nikita Khrushchev is an odd choice for a biographical subject. And I have to take a moment to thank Kara and Adam from the Time Travel Talks discord group for recommending the biography by William Taubman that I used as the principle source. For a book that clocks in at about 1000 pages, I was admittedly skeptical as to how much I would actually enjoy reading about Khrushchev. But I was enthralled. I say an odd choice because his life story in immediately interesting on face value. He wasn’t a war-time hero, his legacy as soviet premier in largely defined by the Cuban Missile Crisis – and, in turn is greatly overshadowed by his adversary John F. Kennedy. He wasn’t exactly charismatic, and his quotes aren’t profound or weighty. In fact, and this is an official language warning, he was not afraid to use crude, course, and by today’s standards especially, derogatory language. So again, language warning. If this sort of thing offends you, now is the time to tune out. But despite all the reasons to not give Nikita Khrushchev a second look, it’s important to remember that as the unexpected successor to Stalin’s Soviet Union, he found himself wielding that extraordinary power in an equally unexpected way. And so now, I present to you the life of Nikita Khrushchev: The Brinksman (Part 1). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're making our first foray into Soviet history with the Death of Stalin! Join us for a discussion of Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's rise to power, Stalin's tomb, Maria Veriaminovna, and the Moscow Doctor's Plot. **Content Warning**: This episode features discussions of sexual assault. Sources: Film Background: Manohla Dargis's Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/movies/the-death-of-stalin-armando-iannucci-steve-buscemi.html Death of Stalin IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Richard Overy, "Carry on up the Kremlin: How the Death of Stalin Plays Russian Roulette with the Truth," The Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/18/death-of-stalin-russian-roulette-with-truth-armando-iannucci Stalin's Tomb: "Stalin's Body to Be Removed From Tomb in Red Square," New York Times, October 31st 1961."Keeping the Russian Revolution Alive," NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124901338 Footage of Stalin's Funeral. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjrQOnN4kY Vladimir A. Kozlov, ed. Sedition: Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Yale University Press, 2011. Christine Quigley, Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century. McFarland, 2006.  Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "The Heirs of Stalin," available at https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heirs-of-stalin/ Stalin's Rise to Power: Robert V. Daniels, The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia. Yale University Press.  Robert Tucker, "The Rise of Stalin's Personality Cult," American Historical Review 84, 2 (April 1979) William Zimmerman, Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin. Princeton University Press. Khrushchev: Bio https://www.pbs.org/redfiles/bios/all_bio_nikita_khrushchev.htm  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/khrushchev_nikita.shtml  NINA KHRUSHCHEV IS DEAD AT 84; WIDPW OF FORMER SOVIET LEADER https://nyti.ms/29DUqBC .    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Petrovna_Khrushcheva  William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era (Kindle edition)   https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/01/03/issue.html   https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/27/314961287/how-soviet-kitchens-became-hotbeds-of-dissent-and-culture Malenkov: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1988/02/02/904688.html?pageNumber=1  Buscemi pronuniation: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000114/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_trv_sm#trivia  Molotov's quote: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/quotes/qt4134101  Beria's trial https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-29-mn-231-story.html  https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/caesar-10.pdf   Moscow Doctors: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-46797678/hundreds-of-soviet-doctors-were-imprisoned-or-shot https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/caesar-01.pdf   https://apnews.com/f4916e2e06bb274c8ccc599ea0a607d4   https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bomb-russian-officials/ Lenin and Stalin (health)  https://www.history.com/news/lenin-stalin-differences-soviet-union Dr. Vladimir Vinogradov  https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1964/07/31/97343336.html?pageNumber=23  https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/maria-yudina-stalin/   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stalin-180965119/   Mrówczyński-Van Allen, Artur. Apology of Culture: Religion and Culture in Russian Thought. United States: Pickwick Publications, 2015.  Allen B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov, The Shostakovich Wars, quoting extensively from Shostakovich's memoir, Testimony Vulture tries to do our job for us! https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/vulture-fact-check-death-of-stalin.html  

Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the most important figures of the 20th century.  A child of the Soviet Union, and a fast rising star in the Communist Party, Gorbachev was also a democratizer whose reforms led to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.  William Taubman has authored the definitive biography of the last Soviet leader.  William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at Amherst College.  A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Nikita Khrushchev, he’s latest book is a biography of former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev titled, simply, Gorbachev.

In this week's episode, we interview Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer William Taubman, author of Gorbachev: His Life and Times. This interview was recorded during BIO's May 2018 annual conference in New […]

Watch the video here. William Taubman won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, a portrait of the Soviet leader ''unlikely to be surpassed any time soon in either richness or complexity'' (New York Times Book Review). The Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College, he is the author of several other works detailing 20th-century Russian politics. Drawing from international archival documents, interviews with foreign leaders, Kremlin contemporaries, and Gorbachev himself, Taubman's new biography is a nuanced look at the transformational leader. Yuri Slezkine is best known as the author of The Jewish Century, a boldly interpretive treatise about Jews' role in modernity. Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, he is also the author of several other books about the Soviet state, including In the Shadow of Revolution, Arctic Mirrors, and Between Heaven and Hell. In House of Government, Slezkine tells the epic of the massive apartment building occupied by high-ranking Communists until their annihilation during Stalin's purges. (recorded 9/26/2017)

In a historically-minded episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff sit with William Taubman. Dr. Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College and the author of several books, including a biography of Nikita Khrushchev that won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004, and, most recently, a biography of Mikhail Gorbachev.   Of course, the three discuss Gorbachev: who and what inspired him, his political trajectory through the Communist Party, and how his personal traits both enabled and undermined his success and his historical role—as well as the importance of individuals to history. They also delve into Bill’s research and writing, including how he came to write this biography, some of the challenges he faced in writing it, and the evolution of his own relationship with Gorbachev over the course of many interviews.   You can pick up a copy of Bill’s book at fine bookstores everywhere. If you’d like to buy the book through an independent bookstore, click here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393647013   For more information on Bill and his books, check out his website: https://williamtaubmanbooks.com/   As always, keep sending us mailbag questions! If you would like to have your question answered on the podcast, send it to us! Email rep@csis.org and put “Russian Roulette” in the subject line. And, if you have one, include your Twitter handle, so we can notify you publicly when we answer your question (or, if you don’t want us to, tell us that). We look forward to hearing from you.

Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times. [spp-player] The post The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev appeared first on SRB Podcast.

As memories of the Cold War fade, and worries about a new era of tense relations between Russia and the West emerge, the moment is ripe to revisit the decades when the United States and the Soviet Union—the world's two “super powers”—dictated geopolitical strategy, foreign policy, and economic stability.There were many reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Russia, but one man in particular was able to conceive of a post-Communist future in which peace and prosperity might be shared with former enemies and adversaries. In Gorbachev: His Life and Times, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian William Taubman combines rigorous biographical research, compelling narrative skill, and extensive access to his subject to create a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century.

William C. Taubman is currently the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. The son of a New York Times journalist who learned the importance of working hard and thinking carefully as well as to accept challenges, but not possible ones. In this episode we learn how Professor Taubman entered Harvard at only the age of 16. In his early career it was unclear if he might pursue journalism instead of academia. Even after he entered academia he almost ended up leaving the halls of learning for the CIA. As an academic, he considered how he could combine his interest in not only teaching but in research and writing. He worked long and hard to find a way to write scholarship that would be accessible to general readers. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003. CONNECT WITH PROFESSOR TAUBMAN William Taubman Books Faculty Website CONNECT WITH nine dots Email Geoffrey Website nine dots on Twitter nine dots on Instagram nine dots on LinkedIn nine dots on Facebook

William C. Taubman is currently the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. The son of a New York Times journalist who learned the importance of working hard and thinking carefully as well as to accept challenges, but not possible ones. In this episode we learn how Professor Taubman entered Harvard at only the age of 16. In his early career it was unclear if he might pursue journalism instead of academia. Even after he entered academia he almost ended up leaving the halls of learning for the CIA.  As an academic, he considered how he could combine his interest in not only teaching but in research and writing. He worked long and hard to find a way to write scholarship that would be accessible to general readers. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003. CONNECT WITH PROFESSOR TAUBMAN William Taubman Books Faculty Website CONNECT WITH nine dots Email Geoffrey Website nine dots on Twitter nine dots on Instagram nine dots on LinkedIn nine dots on Facebook

Further discussion of the Nashville Statement in response to a listener's questions about the much-debated Article 10: what does the statement leave out and whether the signers are consistent in applying all of Jesus' teachings in their lives. Peter objects to anyone being in the business of determining who is a “real Christian” and Bernard wonders whether it's o.k. to work with Christians who promote sin. There's also a discussion of the attempt at community living documented in the abandoned BBC Channel 4 programme "Eden: Paradise Lost" and why such attempts are doomed to "Lord of the Flies" type failure. Then: what makes George Fox an inspiration to members of the Bruderhof? What is a Quaker steeple-house? (This is part of a continuing discussion of the document "Foundations of our Faith and Calling," the Bruderhof's public account of its faith and practice). Here are some of the links and references from this episode: -Nashville Statement - https://cbmw.org/nashville-statement -A Statement from Christian Ethicists on Preventive War and the North Korea Crisis - https://catholicmoraltheology.com/a-statement-from-christian-ethicists-on-preventive-war-and-the-north-korea-crisis/ -'Ethicists for Peace Speak Out – So Should We' by Charles Moore - http://www.bruderhof.com/en/voices-blog/world/ethicists-for-peace-speak-out -Eden: Paradise Lost - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/eden-paradise-lost/on-demand/63315-009 -J.R.R. Tolkien reads The Hobbit - http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/listen_to_jrr_tolkien_read_a_lengthy_excerpt_from_ithe_hobbiti_1952.html -Beyond the Weir Bridge' by Hester Burton - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-weir-bridge-Hester-Burton/dp/0690140525 -'All Out War' by Tim Shipman - https://www.amazon.com/All-Out-War-Britains-Political/dp/0008215154 -'Gorbachev: His Life and Times' by Prof. William Taubman - https://www.amazon.com/Gorbachev-Times-Prof-William-Taubman/dp/147115758X -Foundations of our Faith and Calling - http://www.bruderhof.com/foundations Rate us and leave us a comment on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out the Bruderhof's website at www.bruderhof.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/thebruderhof Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheBruderhof Instagram: www.instagram.com/bruderhofcommunities Email: contact@bruderhof.com

William Taubman discusses his biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, and N. K. Jemisin talks about reading, writing and reviewing science fiction and fantasy.