The War in Ukraine

Currently Playing: The NATO Summit in Washington: The Big Picture

In this playlist: Issues of Contemporary Politics I deal with current events and here specifically I discuss the main takeaway from the recent NATO summit in Washington. As always I prefer a long term historical perspective. The NATO declaration and its announced goals and claims is subjected here to critical analysis and I venture to disprove the validity of these claims and unattainability of these goals. You may want to look at other playlists, such as the Ukraine war; Russian under Yeltsin and Putin, Russia under the Communist regime; Russian history, AP European History. Dr. Brovkin is a Russian born American historian, a Graduate of Georgetown and Princeton, a Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University in the 1990s an Executive Editor of Democratizatsiya, The Journal of the Post-Soviet Democratization, in the late 1990s, the author of 7 books on the History of Russia. Among them: Russia After Lenin (Routledge) Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War (Princeton) Dear Comrades, Mensheviks Reports (Hoover), the Mensheviks After October (Cornell) and thr LATEST: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. Russia in Search of Its Identity (London Routledge 2024 . They are all available either at the publisher or Amazon. And finally readers in Russia can find one book published in Russian and in Russia: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa, available in Blue Berries, Ozon, and Litres.