RFE/RL was an unusual place, especially the canteen where people of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe would gather together with German staff and British and American researchers.
This chapter describes the author’s travel, stories and experiences in Ukraine and the Soviet Union during the initial implementation of Glasnost.
This chapter describes the author’s travel, stories and experiences as a history professor and PhD student in Alberta, Canada.
For the first time in my experience, public opinion from outside the university had counted for more than scholarly achievement and peer evaluation within it.
In nuclear power, man had harnessed a monster. While it may be true that every form of power production has its dangers, nothing is as irrevocable as the effects of a nuclear accident.
In the former Soviet states, debates about the past are often the defining element of contemporary politics and Stalinism is still full of secrets yet to be discovered.
Both among the authorities and the opposition, there are good and bad people, there is no dividing line between them. That was also obvious in Communist times.
The problems faced today seem even more complex than in the late 1980s when, in retrospect, there was more opportunity for open discussion.
This chapter describes the author’s travel, stories and experiences teaching and publishing 20th Century Russian history books in Cambridge and Moscow.
2010 was a watermark year. The signs for a freer election than in the past had been promising. But December marked a turning point, with candidates in prison on election night amidst Russian interference.
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