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Martin, who is also affiliated with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, cut a swath into Russian scholarship when he analyzed the Soviet regime in his 2001 book, “The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union...
...Martin came in from the point of view of an associate professor to relaunch our teaching in Russian and Soviet history,” Gordon said. “We are poised to become once again a leading center for the study of Russian and Soviet history...
This spring, Martin is teaching History 1531, “History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991,” History 2531, “The Soviet Union: Seminar,” and History 1958, “Islam and Ethnicity: Conference Course...
...sensation of state-owned TV in Russia is an 87-year-old dissident with a juicy backstory. A mini-series based on ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN'S once banned 1968 anti-Soviet novel, First Circle, attracted 15 million viewers a night, beating out even a broadcast of Terminator 3. After being imprisoned by Stalin, exiled to Vermont and triumphantly welcomed home in 1994, the reclusive writer has not always been in the forefront of Russians' hearts. Dismissed as pass, he endured the indignity of seeing his talk show canceled because of low ratings. But the success of the mini-series, for which...
INTERNET After the Soviet Union beat the U.S. into space with the launch of Sputnik I, the first satellite, in 1957, the Department of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency to kick-start innovation. It named Joseph Licklider to find ways to protect the U.S. against a space-based nuclear attack, and he believed a communications network was key to those efforts. The first Net went live in October 1969 with the University of California, Los Angeles, talking to the Stanford Research Institute. In 1990 the National Science Foundation expanded the system connecting university networks. It reached the public...