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Fall 2024 Timeline

Alex Vekker, a Specialist on Soviet and Post-Soviet Economy

Castle of Childhood, Moscow, Russia

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December
4

Russian Tea
A bi-weekly conversational event.
December
9

Fall 2024 Classes End
April
11

Slavic Bazaar

Latest News

By our very own Dr. Kristen Ghodsee

The other Great Depression, by Kristen R Ghodsee (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2024)
Dr. Orenstein on Mr. Trump's Mention of Viktor Orban

Why Donald Trump's praise for Viktor Orbán should matter to you | Opinion (inquirer.com)
Dr. Ghodsee on NPR:

Capitalism: What Is It?
Dr. Mitchell Orenstein's Book Receives a Book Prize

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame has awarded the 2021 Laura Shannon Prize Silver Medal to Hilary Appel, the Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, and Mitchell A.

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