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Panopticon in Russia

Historian of Science Simon Werret on Michel Foucault, the Grigory Potemkin’s estate and theatricality of Samuel Bentham’s panopticon

Science and Spectacle in the 18th Century Russia

Historian of Science Simon Werret on the Russian Academy of Sciences, the foundation of Saint Petersburg, and the application of a spectacle in order to develop scientific tradition

Russian Voyages and James Cook

Historian of Science Simon Werret on the Russian maritime empire, sale of Alaska, and the role of trade in reclamation of remote lands

Statistics and State in USSR

Historian Alain Blum on statistics as a tool of government and propaganda, the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, and unresolved social problems

The Legacy of World War I Today

Historian Jay M. Winter on the Arab world after World War I, 20th century authoritarian regimes and long-term effects of World War I in today’s politics

Before Command: The Russian Economy from Emancipation to Stalin

Historian Paul Gregory on the agrarian crisis hypothesis, smychka, and the agricultural performance of Siberia

Importance of Nomads in Eurasian History

Historian Thomas Barfield on the Xiongnu empire, Genghis Khan, and the Mongolian tax policy

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