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Sergey Radchenko
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The new Reagan FRUS / Soviet Union volume has just been released, triggering a new round of debate about how close we came to nuclear war in 1983. See this
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I have to say that I am somewhat conflicted on the subject of Russia sanctions. On the one hand, we know (from ample historical experience) that they do not
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On the question of Russia sanctions - and putting on my historian's hat - the following two considerations come to mind. 1) In the short term, sanctions can and do
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https://www.politico.eu/article/estonian-pm-eu-has-to-speed-up-with-sanctions-on-russia-kaja-kallas/. "When we impose sanctions, some ask after six months, ‘Have they worked?’ And if they haven’t, ‘Remove them because they don
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Had an interesting discussion with @samagreene and @TarikCyrilAmar as to whether Russia's foreign policy can be described as successful or otherwise. Some reflections. To understand whether Russia's foreign policy is
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Spent a few hours reading the Soviet records on the deep freeze in Soviet-US relations in the early 1980s. Moscow resented US pressure on human rights, on Afghanistan, on Poland.
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Some reflections on a day of protests in Russia. It's become a common refrain that the authorities are "afraid" of protesters, and the only response they can come up with
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https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/. Have read the new Mister X on China. Problematic. The very first page proclaims that Xi Jinping has "returned to classical Marx
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Found it fascinating to read reactions to Trump's Twitter ban among Russia's opposition activists: mostly, though not entirely, negative. (The argument is consistently: 'this amounts to censorship'). E.g., from @navalny:
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Reading @FukuyamaFrancis's Origins of Political Order, which is brilliant. Here's what he says about legitimacy. "Legitimacy means that the people who make up the society recognise the fundamental justice of
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Forty-one years ago! What do we now know, and what evidence do we have? We know that throughout 1979 Kabul (Taraki and Amin) pleaded for Soviet intervention. This was especially
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I hesitated for a bit whether I should post excerpts from the following documents as they can easily be quoted out of context but I've decided to do it anyway.
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