Abstract: The paper concerns the life of Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski (1901-1964), an Austrian-Jewish physicist, writer, businessman, communist, then anti-communist and gambler. In his twenties, Weissberg was a member of an international brotherhood of physicists at the peak of that science and of a cosmopolitan leftist milieu of European intelligentsia. He is best known for the book […]

The Sokol movement is said to have experienced something of a ‘golden age’ in the interwar period, similar to that of the Czechoslovak Republic itself. The Czechoslovak Sokol Association, which became a mass movement in the interwar period, received and also gave fulsome support to the national institutions of the state, and its impressive organisation […]

Bénédicte Santoire, University of Ottawa, presents new research on the role of women in protracted conflicts in Moldova and Georgia for feedback and discussion. Bénédicte Santoire is a PhD Candidate and Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She researches and teaches in the areas of feminist international relations theories and feminist […]

Columbia’s Art History and Archaeology is hosting an event to launch the publication of Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization,1917–1945, edited by Claire Zimmerman, Christina Crawford and the late Jean Louis Cohen. The book Detroit–Moscow–Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization explores spatial development, manufacturing, mass production, and organizational planning across geopolitical lines that ran from Detroit to Moscow and […]

Yana Prymachenko, PhD, Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University, and Senior Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, joins the CUNY REEES Kruzhok to discuss a comparative analysis of the "Great Victory" in Soviet and Russian memory culture.   Since 1965, Victory Day became the main holiday in the […]