News From Eurasia: December 2020 – January 2021
SRAS’ Twitter account is used primarily for news tracking. This is important for the maintainance of its Family of Sites (of which GeoHistory is a…
SRAS’ Twitter account is used primarily for news tracking. This is important for the maintainance of its Family of Sites (of which GeoHistory is a…
SRAS students studying in Warsaw, Poland on the Security and Society in the Information Age program have recently published a new scholarly volume. As part…
Europe: Divisions and Unifications The European continent is diverse. Many of its countries, though smaller than many US states, can be further broken into regions…
Poland: An Emerging Central European Power? Poland joined the European Union in 2004 as part of the EU’s “big bang” of Eastern expansion. This broke…
Scholars of the Soviet Union have written at length about the consolidation of Soviet state control over the media, the establishment of Glavlit and other…
Europe is divided by conflict yet again between the East and West, between the European Union (EU) and the Russian Federation, in a way arguably…
Even though we have lived in harsh conditions we the community of Koryo Saram[3] have helped each other like brothers. We have provided each other…
Warsaw: Palimpsest of the Polish Nation Palimpsest: (n) a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier…
Krakow: Poland’s Cultural Capital Krakow was the Polish capital from 1038 to 1596 or approximately from the Kingdom of Poland’s historical founding through its golden…
Артельный горшок гуще кипит “With a helper, many things are possible” – Russian Proverb ‘Let us seek a prince who may rule over us, and…
The early modern period from 1500-1800 has been focused upon in recent scholarship as a unique era separated from the medieval and the modern. This…
The concept of human rights in an international context and on the scale that exists today did not come into being until the 20th century….
With the creation of the Eurasian Economic Community’s customs union (“Customs Union”) in 2010, total trade among Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan skyrocketed.[1] Emboldened by such…
On April 26, 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history took place in Chernobyl, Ukraine as a result of an unnecessary safety test. Workers at…
From the time of the October Revolution in 1917, the United States had a tense relationship with the Soviet Union. The United States was, after…
It has taken energy (namely coal and oil) to produce the industrialized and economically prosperous nations of today. That is certain to change in the…