Daily Archives: February 15, 2011
Creating Cover Stories: A National Pastime
This coming April 12 marks the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight into space. In honor of that jubilee, and also because I’m finishing a biography on the world’s first cosmonaut, I’ll be blogging on and off about various … Continue reading
Posted in Cold War, Soviet Era 1917-1991
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The Way Back: Cold War Emotions Revived?
Just before Christmas I saw the newly released The Way Back, in many ways a typical escape story. Directed by Peter Weir, the film tells the incredible story of how a young Polish officer, arrested in 1939 and sent … Continue reading
Posted in Films, Gulag, Soviet Era 1917-1991
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An Academic Russian History Blog?
Welcome to the Russian history blog. For my first post, I thought I’d start to lay out a little bit of what I was thinking when I asked this great collection of colleagues to join me in this new venture. … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Russian History
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