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Center for Strategic & International Studies | 27Oct2014 |
Timothy Snyder [01:38:39]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpOpnFzTfVQ
Russia's War, Ukraine's
History and the West's Options
Center for Strategic & International
Studies
Published on 28 Oct 2014
In Russia's invasion of Ukraine, history was presented as justification
for war. Is there any resemblance between Russian justifications and
historical consensus? What does it mean when ethnic claims trump
international law? And should hate propaganda be seen simply as an
instrument in one war, or an element of a larger strategy to
destabilize the West?
Timothy Snyder is one of the world’s foremost scholars of Central and
Eastern Europe, and the author of numerous critically acclaimed works
of history, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
(2010), and The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania,
Belarus, 1569-1999 (2003). During the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, he has
been a visible public intellectual, addressing questions of historical
memory, narrative, and reconciliation both in his writing and through
his public activism.
Presentation by:
Timothy Snyder
Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale University
Moderated by:
Jeffrey Mankoff
Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS