The Nuclear Theft From the Poor and Hungry … weapons and material in former Soviet states such as Ukraine and Belarus. It was critical that these weapons not …
Picturing Black History … Sunday. And we have news photographers on the ground in Ukraine. So we really are everywhere. But today I want to …
First World War of the Twenty-First Century? … the United States prepared to do to prevent Azerbaijan or Ukraine from falling under Russian hegemony? There are no …
Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order … felt abandoned by Moscow and the "Slav republics" (Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus). It was a generally unwanted …
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom? Review of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State, by Mark Lawrence Schrad (New York: Oxford UP, 2014)
Operation Barbarossa … vast Army Groups. Their targets were Leningrad, Moscow, and Ukraine , respectively. At 3:15 am, German artillery began …
A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews … the well-documented synagogue in Gwoździec (now modern day Ukraine ). It was originally built c. 1650, then renovated …
The Hajj and Europe … And in a new twist last year, after annexing Crimea from Ukraine , Russia offered Crimean Tatars generous hajj …
Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip Review of Nikita Khrushchev's Journey into America, by Lawrence J. Nelson and Matthew G. Schoenbachler (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2019)
Living in History: Stalingrad at 75 … “new Stalingrad,” as the 2014 battle for Donetsk airport in Ukraine was termed online and in nationalist media—as a way …
Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book Review of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants, by Molly Greene (Princeton University Press 2010) … from the bottom up. This policy saw particular success in Ukraine. As long as the Catholic Church saw Greek-Orthodox …
Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia … just weeks after Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine downed Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, killing all 298 …
Solar Eclipses in American History … averages by some 1.5°C. Wars rage in Gaza and Ukraine . An unprecedented four billion global citizens are …
The War on Terror … his takeover of the Crimea, his support for rebels in the Ukraine. You can see that in China, building islands in the …
Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics … anything resembling the political turmoil in neighboring Ukraine, Putin hopes for an uneventful two weeks in Sochi …
Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics … helped settle a natural gas dispute involving Russia, Ukraine, and Europe, and experienced a change of government …