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Washington History Seminar
Registrace 12. 06. 2020
The seminar is co-sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. It began in 2010 and meets weekly during the academic year.
Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World
Defectors, the new book by award-winning historian Erik R. Scott, shows how the Cold War treatment of those fleeing the Communist world shaped present-day restrictions on cross-border movement. This far-ranging study charts a global struggle over defectors that unfolded among rival intelligence agencies operating in the shadows of an occupied Europe, in the forbidden border zones of the USSR, in the disputed straits of the South China Sea, on a hijacked plane 10,000 feet in the air, and around the walls of Soviet embassies. Challenging our conventional understanding of Cold War divisions, it reveals that the competition for defectors paved the way for collusion between the superpowers, who found common cause in regulating the spaces through which defectors moved.
Erik R. Scott is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas, the Director of KU’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Editor of The Russian Review. A scholar of Russian and Soviet history, the Cold War, comparative empires, and global migration, his publications include Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), “Bordering Transnationalism: Soviet History Across the Globe” (American Historical Review, March 2023), and “The Hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 244: States and Statelessness in the Late Cold War” (Past & Present, May 2019).
With comments from Francine Hirsch & Amy Knight.
The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the American Historical Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partner (the George Washington University History Department) for their continued support.
Erik R. Scott is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas, the Director of KU’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Editor of The Russian Review. A scholar of Russian and Soviet history, the Cold War, comparative empires, and global migration, his publications include Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), “Bordering Transnationalism: Soviet History Across the Globe” (American Historical Review, March 2023), and “The Hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 244: States and Statelessness in the Late Cold War” (Past & Present, May 2019).
With comments from Francine Hirsch & Amy Knight.
The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the American Historical Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partner (the George Washington University History Department) for their continued support.
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Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World
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In Suharto’s Cold War, Mattias Fibiger argues that the Indonesian dictator Suharto used the global Cold War to wage his own domestic and regional Cold Wars. Suharto mobilized international aid and investment to construct a counterrevolutionary dictatorship and promote economic development in Indonesia. He then sought to propagate authoritarian reaction elsewhere in Southeast Asia and contain th...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
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Why was it possible for the US to have women astronauts thirty years before women in combat? The answer, Sarah Percy argues, is that a faulty recollection of military history apparently demonstrated that women had never been in (or anywhere near) combat. In her new book, Forgotten Warriors, Percy demonstrates that women were in fact common actors on the battlefields of history, explains why and...
The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776-Present
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Nationalism is often deemed a purely political or cultural ideology whose proponents are uninterested in the minutiae of economic policy. Marvin Suesse shows that nationalists do in fact think about the economy, and that this thinking matters once they hold power. Drawing on case studies from the American Revolution to the rise of China, he explains the varieties of economic nationalism, elucid...
24/7 Politics: Cable Television & the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News
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This session is sponsored by the American Historical Association As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable indus...
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
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This book takes the trial of Marshal Petain in 1945 as a lens through which to examine the central crisis of twentieth century France: the defeat of 1940, the signing of an armistice with German and collaboration with Hitler - history of France under occupation. It examines the ways in which Pétain’s ‘treason’ was constructed in 1945 and follows the debates over the Pétain case up to the last F...
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
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In the early 1970s, U.S. Army leaders worried that racial conflict within the ranks would undermine the army’s ability to defend the nation. Historian Beth Bailey analyzes Army attempts to solve that racial crisis (in army terms, “the problem of race”), arguing that Army leaders were surprisingly creative in confronting demands for racial justice, even willing to challenge fundamental army prin...
Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
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The 1980s was a unique decade during which the radical goal of nuclear abolition enjoyed support from both grassroots movements across the globe and the leaders of the two superpowers, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. In Dreams for a Decade, Stephanie L. Freeman draws on newly declassified material to reveal the significant yet unappreciated role that nuclear abolitionism played in ending t...
Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper
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On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways’ celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York’s Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Brooke L. Blower talks about her work reconstructing the backstories of seven wor...
Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas
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The Cold War was a harsh time for economics with its ideologues, its hard-liners and its spies. Economists were pushed between two camps with opposing views, caught up in a battle of economic ideas. There were fundamental questions like: can a planned economy ever be efficient, is investment driven by profits or wages, could a social market economy offer a middle way, all seen through the eyes ...
The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
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The first scholarly global history of the second half of the twentieth century, this book argues that the era is best understood in terms of the interaction of two large, worldwide developments. One is the increasing and accelerating crossing of the borders of sovereign states, continents and oceans by ideas, cultures and information, people, commodities, and capital, creating world-wide interc...
Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
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Conventional wisdom says that the Civil Rights Movement essentially began in the 1950s with the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Montgomery bus boycott. Conventional wisdom also says that Hubert Humphrey betrayed his liberal heritage with his support of the Vietnam War. While both of those statements contain elements of truth, speaker Samuel G. Freedman will be arguing that the youn...
Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust
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When it comes to German efforts to confront the Nazi past, conventional approaches tend to focus on solemn statements and well-meant monuments. Andrew I. Port looks instead at the very concrete ways in which postwar Germans embraced the lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust-above all in response to other genocides that took place elsewhere after 1945. This innovative approach makes the l...
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
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The Wm. Roger Louis Lecture In Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, Timothy Garton Ash offers a unique account of the history of Europe since 1945, and especially over the last 50 years. This is an unusual genre: history illustrated by memoir and reportage. Garton Ash draws on his extensive notes of events witnessed, places visited and historymakers encountered (from Margaret Thatcher and M...
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
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Like the Great Game struggles between Russia and Britain over India that existed for most of the 19th century, the “other” Great Game in East Asia over control of the Korean peninsula also gave rise to lasting rivalry and bloodshed among the regional powers at the turn of the twentieth century. Using her latest book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (...
The Wounded World: W.E.B. DuBois and the First World War
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The Wounded World: W.E.B. DuBois and the First World War
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
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The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975
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Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
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Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights...
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A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights...
Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
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Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-Shek, China, 1887-1975
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Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-Shek, China, 1887-1975
Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
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Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era
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The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era
America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life
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America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life
Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
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Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
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Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
I got a snippet, very big subject, wish I had more time to devote.
Dr. Richardson, I appreciate your work and contribution to American history studies. I do understand your position. However . . . your seeing Confederate ideology as moving west in contradistinction to simultaneous white, male supremacy in the east sets aside certain facts. I’ll mention two. One, that interpretation belies the simultaneous reality of the pioneer woman (white, black, Indian, mixed) as the indefatigable woman who plowed before dawn and saved the farm or ranch when husband died of illness, or gunshot. Weren’t the first US women to vote in the West? And second, the epitome of American literature with its quiet yet overt message of equality was banned in Boston. Boston is not in the west but was horrified about what Huck Finn said. After pondering by the river, Huck said that if helping Jim stay free meant going to hell, so be it, he’d go to hell. Is that *not* white, male “Confederate” ideology just because Yankees did the banning? I’d go on with your other points, but that’s pointless as you’ll never read this.
If the thesis is that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a peacenik then I find myself in agreement with Richard Milhous Nixon. No.
In September 1951, it was Georges Pompidou who announced to Charles de Gaulle that "Pétain is dead". De Gaulle then corrected him by responding: "Yes, the Marshal is dead." This response from de Gaulle is quite telling.
Above all, don't forget that Pétain had ratified the death sentence of General De Gaulle, pronounced on August 2, 1940 in Clermont Ferrand. And that throughout the war of 1940-1945 this sentence was neither pardoned nor reduced. And let me know that Petain's death sentence of August 15, 1945 in Paris was pardoned by whom? General de Gaulle.
Its monumental foot shot! also unprecedented! makes me laugh
Thanks you for this, I bought the book because I really wanted a biography of Stalin that was unbiased and didn’t have a negative (or positive) interpretation from the get go. The nuanced portrait is much more interesting to understand the complexity behind the man then a diatribe or a glorious eulogy could be. 😊
The fact that Africans were rescued from cannibalism should matter And no one has ever been telling the truth about history instead of what you prefer to hear .
Scientifically it's called The Big 5 Conference of Interest .Use The Science of Corruption in Governments ,to understand the problem . The fact that they still use wages slavery proves what a tyrant the Christian church is !
As a middle eastern i find it offensive the blame is west more so than Middle Easterns who commit the violence by their owns hands against their neighbors . middle easterns stop blaming others accept responsibility & west needs to stop thinking they can change that. has experienced violence from ancient times through to the modern era. This region’s deep-rooted tribalism has been a fundamental issue. It’s important to recognize that the conflicts and challenges are not solely the result of Western influence or the existence of Israel. Even in the absence of these external factors, tribal dynamics alone have historically driven and could continue to drive violence in the region
Great conversation. Peace
Thank you very much¡¡
Pétain was a bad general in 14 18 Capitulare at Verdun in 1916 on two occasions and a notorious defeatist in 1918 on 4 occasions Deposed of his title of generalissimo in March 1918 at the interallied conference of Doullens. Between the two wars, 1920-1939, despite the military positions he occupied, including Minister of War, Petain did everything to strip France of its military alliances in the East, such as with Russia, Yuslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Petain prevented the Maginot Line from being completed in 1927, again in 1932 and especially in 1934 as Minister of War Petain will again refuse Daladier to come on January 14, 1940. He will always refuse as cowardly a 3rd time, to the new head of Government Paul Reynaud on May 1, 1940 at Paul Reynaud's 2nd call on May 14, 1940 Petain said to his ordering officer "The situation seems lost, I accept!" and will arrive on May 17, 1940 in Paris with a cowardly refusal to occupy the Ministry of Defense that the Reynaud Government logically offers him, because Petain has already occupied this position in the year 1934 and for more than one career soldier it is natural to expect him to defend his homeland since he is paid for that. Resuming his 14-18 defeatist posture Petain on June 17, 1940 hastened to lay down his arms by asking for a dishonorable armistice from the enemy.
in my father's home country of Sri Lanka, the legacy of british colonialism was more than a quarter century of violent civil war. Thanks Britain. i count myself as an unwanted waste product of british imperialism.
"Legacy of Violence" buries the complete lie of "fair play Britain" that still survives throughout all aspects of English so-called culture.
Thanks for this. I'm a fan of Professor Jackson.
Thank you for exposing how 1935 to 1945 was mythologized.
Hell
u go into a man's country ,take away his land , when he resisted your actions you turn big guns on him , what brutality.
Colonialism should be designated a crime against humanity .
Well done!!!
this is realy goooooooood book , muy recomendable
The US government has no integrity.
HCR is a national treasure ❤
Aye, Don't forget the incredible pressure the Democrats were under by the Republican right since Reagan. This forced the Democrats to compromise in order to accomplish anything. There are solutions to this, but the Democrats are unable to implement these policy solutions due to Republican political obstruction and vilification.
IV HEARD ANYTHING BUT SOME THINGS GOOD EVER EVERY TIME. THE WRITING OF THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA. BYE. WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WHOLE MESS. WHO DREW THE BORDER. WHO RECATAGORIZED AND RESETTELMENT. WHO GAVE THEM THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE PARTNERSHIP. WHO'S THE DOMINANT AND MORE POWERFUL ONE. SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS. YOU CAN START RIGHT NOW.
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The main and decisive factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union was the struggle for power between Gorbachev and Yeltsin. The Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin, most actively contributed to the collapse of the united country, because he really wanted to overthrow the President of the USSR Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. And for this he entered into a secret conspiracy with the Balts. On January 13, 1991, he arrived in the Estonian capital, where he held negotiations with them. In Tallinn, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR signed a completely illegitimate agreement with the Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR and Lithuanian SSR, according to which the RSFSR allegedly recognizes the Baltic republics as independent states. Later, on December 8, 1991, in Belarus, in the government sanatorium "Viskuli", Boris Yeltsin initiated the signing of an agreement on the creation of the Union of Independent States and the liquidation of the USSR. Although initially neither Kravchuk nor Shushkevich wanted to sign the Belovezhskaya Agreement at the meeting.
If FDR reappeared today, he’d be booed off the stage with shouts of “Socialist!”
19:10 "Neoliberal is was profoundly appealing to those... down low... To those on the... New Left." 😅 Okay, bud. I haven't heard this much BS coming out of one mouth since that David Brooks TED talk. This guy is a human mayonnaise stain.
12:50 "Opened up space for... Bernie Sanders style socialism to flourish." 😅 Yeah, it's really flourishing.
Claiming that neoliberalism has fallen does not make it so. It shuffles on like a lifeless zombie devouring all in its path, laying waste and impoverishing the world.
48:58 These people have a poor understanding of Nationalism. Of course Natalism is congruent with Nationalism (along with other forms of nativism). How this something not understood or need to be "explored?" To have a strong self-sufficient economy you need to have a strong birth rate to sustain the economic structures of your society and not rely on the foreign "other" to amend any labor gaps (that free market capitalism does because free market Capitalist Globalists see man as merely an economic unit to fulfill gaps in economies and see countries as nothing more than giant shopping malls for consumerism. whereas Nationalists see nations as organic communities that include race, ethnicity, culture, language, religion, identity to create a collective organic community. and the economy is the serve the nation. not the nation serving the economy).
You're trying to claim the contradiction is that nationalism being xenophobic ironically takes foreign ideas? This is the best you got? Who cares? Yes, they're not all the same. There are some xenophobic nativist that won't take some idea that is based upon xenophobic nativism like protectionism. All groups have contradictions. Xenophiles will worship the other but then have xenophobic ideas that contradict their ideas in certain ways too.
How about simple terms of Portugal like WW2 Germany were a Fascist state and many Russians had a huge hate for anyone from NATO but above all Fascists. So from being any opportunity to diminish the West but above all end Fascism. For the independence fighters they had no option but to go with communism, this was the only way to fight Fascism and keep control of the land by force, surely none of them wanted a Republic so as to ensure no race bias elections (this actually happens in most countries that the majority were farmers and minority army forces now fight any democratic elected government with civil war) just look at ex French lands (not all but some). Now we also have to look at racism faced not just at home but specially in Europe, remember this was a time after WW2, in 1937 everyone loved Hitler including EU and USA some countries were so under the "Theory of evolution" bull that they even had humans Zoos filled with inferior races (this was common thinking back then now imagine how this translated in to a mix or black kid in Europe and above all how many miss-treated Africans worldwide. Knowing Portugal was fascist during WW2 they still not take axes side of the fight remaining neutral but letting the USA and UK use Acores as air base and supplying raw materials to help UK and USSR makes Russians real back stabbers. Guess Germany should have accepted Franco's help and then things would have been very different but then again can't expect much logic from racism
How did this woman do anything with “West Point” is beyond me 😂 Very sad state of affairs in our institutions. Probably the next President of Harvard.
You know they are about to devolve into motivated pseudo-analysis when they start to mention the post-critical “Decolonize” movement. What a shame.
Thank you
I reject the hegemonic power play by the China as that was Qing Manchu empire and China was merely just part of it. Korea also was force to act as vassal state but they never accepted Manchu as hegemonic power.
Amanda, is that a current profile picture? Hehe.
Phenomenal book. Required reading, as far as I'm concerned. A lot of truth telling.
Please stop.
Marxist to the core.
When your constitution has been usurped for so long you end up with people like this propogandist.
My understanding is Kennedy was okay with the idea of beginning a withdrawal but with the huge caveat that the war was going well. Unfortunately, as we all now know, the war was never going well and exactly ten years later, we turned tail and pulled out. South Vietnam fell to the communists and no dominoes fell. I read recently that in 1961 General Douglas Macarthur told Kennedy the domino theory was, "ridiculous." He knew that part of the world pretty well and he was right. Those countries all look alike only to someone sitting over here. Up close, they're separate entities.
The War was going well though at least after American involvement. It could have been won earlier if the military was allowed to fight properly. In 1968 the Việt Nam Cộng Sản was obliterated and all America had to do was ramp up funding for the South-Vietnamese and indeed withdraw if they wanted to. What they should have done was ask Laos for support and turn the War to the North-Vietnamese border if not invade the North for it's numerous disturbances against it's neighbours. Furthermore the domino theory worked inasmuch as Indochina was concerned and in the rest of South-East Asia America had a decade or more to prevent it which it did.
Promo'SM 😁
Very interesting book and thesis in general. Highly recommend 👍
Ok
Great concept
Having grown up in the South, I completely agree with this premise. Brilliant work. Nuanced and flexible. HCR is a great find for these times!!