Lectures tagged "Russia"

Spies and Spokesmen: Challenges of Journalism in Russia
Nicholas Daniloff
April 30, 2009
01:28:25
Nicholas Daniloff, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a 30-year media veteran, draws upon his own international reporting experiences (including 13 days locked up by the KGB) to explore the challenges and possibilities of writing in the former Soviet Union today.
Richard Pare: The Lost Vanguard
Richard Pare
April 15, 2009
01:05:48
Richard Pare, photographer, discusses his photography of Soviet modernist architecture constructed in the years immediately after the revolution, from 1922 to 1932. He covers how the Stalinist regime put an end to one of the most innovative experiments in the history of architecture.
Ramifications of the Russia-Georgia Conflict
Meade Sutterfield
September 11, 2008
00:58:37
Meade Sutterfield, Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF) facilitator; Wayne Lord, president, Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS); Lt.
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Archivist's Story: Secrets of the Lubyanka Prison
Travis Holland
July 10, 2007
00:57:31
Travis Holland discusses his first novel The Archivist's Story, which explores the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison in Russia, where a young archivist is sent to authenticate an unsigned story confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there.
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Putin, Petroleum, Power and Patronage
Marshall I. Goldman
April 10, 2006
01:19:50
Marshall Goldman discusses his book, Putin, Petroleum, Power and Patronage: The Dog Barks but the Caravan Moves On.
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House of Many Gods
Kiana Davenport
January 19, 2006
00:55:18
Kiana Davenport, author of Song of the Exile and Shark Dialogues, reads from her latest novel about her people and her islands.
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Vladimir Putin and the Oligarchs
Marshall I. Goldman
March 9, 2005
01:29:13
Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, talks about the changes in the Russian government since the end of the Cold War, and the implications for the United States.
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Russia Now: Ethnic Strife and Economic Unrest
Marshall I. Goldman
October 5, 2004
01:17:30
A panel of experts on Russia discuss real-life experience in the region, and share their perspectives.