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Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… “color revolutions” that took place in  Georgia  and  Ukraine  in the early 2000s that were overtly anti-Russian, … the Rose Revolution in 2003 ( left ). The first day of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004 ( right ). The Armenian … Armenian Revolution avoided the pitfalls and violence of Ukraine and Georgia.  To be sure, these were choices …
The U.S.-Economic Cooperation Administration created numerous posters to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. This one, depicting the flags of various Western European countries receiving Marshall Plan aid, was produced in 1950.

The Marshall Plan

… American societies and had to be thwarted. With the War in Ukraine now in its second year, leaders across the world … telegram, Zelensky championed “a new Marshall Plan for Ukraine" and insisted that other countries follow suit. These encouraging ideas about a “Marshall Plan for Ukraine” focus on the program’s undeniable successes in …
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers

From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100

… produced, the Finns declared their independence in 1917. Ukraine, and Ukrainians first tried to break away from the … as an opportunity maybe, to bring about a new independent Ukraine. Similarly, in Finland, if you were a socialist … might experience a color revolution, like the kind in Ukraine, or in Central Asia, or in Georgia, or even …
A Church in Novgorod Russia

Russia and the World

… of Russia, and Putin in particular, as reactive even in Ukraine and Crimea, certainly in Syria, as Jerry alluded to. … was in Crimea, and its involvement in the civil war in Ukraine, these were viewed as a big change in Russia's … What is the longer-term relationship between Russia and Ukraine? And was the Crimean takeover an actual shift in …
Hitler with politicians

The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II

… when Russia forcibly annexed  the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine , Poles were among those who protested most loudly. … Russian President Vladimir Putin to justify his actions in Ukraine. Outside, a mood of dismay and resignation shrouded … ago still seeps into the wars of our own time. In eastern Ukraine today fighting rages between pro-Russian separatists …
A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.

From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War

Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
… century, to twenty-first century conflicts in Chechnya and Ukraine. Tackling such a long stretch of history would be … annexation of Crimea  in 2014 and the stalemate in eastern Ukraine. If one follows the myth’s main script, Carleton …

History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus

… century as a rural, agrarian society. Like its neighbor Ukraine , Belarus started the 20th century with a largely … not split across the Habsburg and Romanov empires. Like in Ukraine, the first stirrings of modern nationhood were … fellow Russians (White Russians or West Russians). Like in Ukraine, Belarusian lands had once formed part of the …
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.

The University of Algiers Library Bombing

… of schools, monuments, and historical sites in the wars in  Ukraine  and  Gaza . A  UN Report from April 2024 noted that … “annihilat[ing]… the cultural sector in Gaza.”  In Ukraine, a  UNESCO report from February 2025 has verified … . Mallard, Thomas. “Damaged Cultural Sites in Ukraine Verified by UNESCO.” UNESCO. Updated April 16, …
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

… you know, they draw the graffiti on the monument. With the Ukraine crisis, they colored the figures of the Soviet … you know, the Arab Spring, or, you know, what happened in Ukraine, the spring and this sort of thing? Those are the …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… And the press described the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine as a CIA plot. Russian President Vladimir Putin … articles have contended that the CIA has fomented unrest in Ukraine since 1991, that Euromaidan was a U.S.-Polish …

"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms

… Bout transported weapons through Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine to Liberia and Angola in the first years of the new … Bout‘s Russian company transported much material from Ukraine. Bout and the 21st-Century Arms Trade Just as …

The Soviet Collapse

… right up to their border . And it was the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO that prompted Putin to intervene in eastern Ukraine and seize Crimea in 2014 . While the American media …
A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.

How Green Is the Atom?

The Past–and Future–of Nuclear Energy in the United States
… at Three Mile Island (United States, 1979),  Chernobyl (Ukraine, 1986), and  Fukushima (Japan, 2011), its supporters …
Press coming from Sochi during the recent Olympic cycle

2/21/14: On Distorting Russia

… Russia: How the U.S. Media Misrepresent Sochi, Putin, and Ukraine ." … Connecting History … Europe … …

Edpuzzles

… for Wakanda   Nuremberg Judgment   Frankenstein   Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell     … Edpuzzles …
Team photo of a soccer team

The Politics of International Sport

… a cartoon villain figure even before the recent events in Ukraine.   Dr. Steven Conn  Yeah, that's right.   Patrick … several other countries. Who knows what's going to go on in Ukraine, whether we'll wind up with two halves of a …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania (1979); Chernobyl, Ukraine (1986); and Fukushima, Japan (2011) disrupted … others lost lives. Radiation spread through the regions of Ukraine and Belarus , near the plant, and then far beyond, …