Before Command: The Russian Economy from Emancipat...
Historian Paul Gregory on the agrarian crisis hypothesis, smychka, and the agricultural performance of Siberia
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September 3, 2015
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August 27, 2015
Problems of Modernization in Russia
Historian of science Loren R. Graham on the mistakes Russian leaders make, intellectual property and risky inv...
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August 17, 2015
Rural Architectural Traditions in Central Asia
Anthropologist Thomas Barfield on ethnic distinctions of architectural forms, earthquakes, and local construct...
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July 16, 2015
The Revolution and Violence in World War I
Historian Jay Winter on the global character of wars in the 20th century, the influence of technical progress ...
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July 13, 2015
The Benandanti
Historian Carlo Ginzburg on the benandanti witches, clashes between medieval peasants and inquisitors, and the...
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June 25, 2015
Microhistory
Historian Carlo Ginzburg on the value of an individual, geopolitical traditions in history and globalization
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June 18, 2015
55,000-year-old skull as an evidence of modern man...
The discovery of a 55,000-year-old partial skull in Northern Israel provides new insights into the migration o...
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February 11, 2015
Global Architecture History
Professor Mark Jarzombek on what Buddhist temples express, transfer of architectural techniques, and the Euroc...
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February 4, 2015
Paleogenetics
Biologist Steven Benner on the questions answered by paleogenetics, how laboratory work in the field is conduc...
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September 25, 2014
Scientific Work in Los Alamos Program
Nobel Prize laureate Roy Glauber on avoiding predetonation, the Trinity test, and the hydrogen bomb
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September 10, 2014
Terror by Quota
Historian Paul Gregory on Stalin's "limity", death sentences, and the academic research with great political i...
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July 30, 2014
Security and the Soviet Command Economy
University of Warwick Prof. Mark Harrison on military-industrial complex, Stalin's Great Breakthrough, and pap...
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