Thane Gustafson talked about his book, Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia, in which he looks at how Russia’s unstable political and economic systems could impact the co…
1,016 viewsTwo authors talked about their books and about Russian history. Andrew Bennett authored Condemned to Repetition?: The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet Russian Military Interventionism 1973-…
252 viewsThe participants discussed President Clinton’s summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin this week, as well as the economic problems of Russia. After their prepared remarks, they t…
82 viewsThe conference titled “Caspian Pipelines: The Keys to the New Oil Rush” focused on the oil trade and pipelines in the area around the Caspian Sea. The speakers said that the opportunities an…
111 viewsPanelists talked about Russian efforts to make their economy more capitalistic over the past ten years. They examined the role of both Russian policies and foreign investment in this transit…
236 viewsIn a preview of the June 16 Russian Presidential Election, American and Russian journalists and scholars spoke about the 10 candidates and their campaigns. They also spoke about what the res…
115 viewsThane Gustafson, associate professor of government at Georgetown University, answered questions from viewers on the March 26 Soviet Parliament elections.
89 viewsPanelists discussed political reform under Gorbachev and answered audience questions.
80 viewsGeorgetown University Professor of Government, Thane Gustafson, joined a C-SPAN viewer call-in program and talked about Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev’s announced armed forces reduction…
330 viewsGeorgetown University Professor of Government, Thane Gustafson, talked about the Communist Party Conference in the Soviet Union and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms.
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