In February 1917, the 300-year reign of the Romanov dynasty ended. Eight months later in October, Bolshevik forces led by Vladimir Lenin seized power, establishing the world's first state operated on Marxist principles. In the aftermath, a myriad of political, economic, social, and cultural changes reshaped life inside Russia as the establishment of the Soviet Union upended the global order. To mark the 100-year anniversary of the Russian Revolutions, hosts Brenna Miller and Jessica Viñas-Nelson interview expert guests Drs. Angela Brintlinger, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Stephen Norris.
The Department of History and the Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University co-sponsored this keynote lecture by Professor David Brakke upon his appointment to the Ohio State faculty, 2012.
Presented February 15, 2013 at the Center for Historical Research, Department of History at The Ohio State University by John Davis, CHR Junior Faculty Fellow.
A premise behind today's growing concern about climate change is that the future matters, i.e., that we today should seek to avoid doing irreparable damage to people whom we will never know and, indeed, are mostly not even born yet.
This video examines the experience of war through four key themes: the appropriation of memory, the trauma of war, the ambiguity of victory, and the soldier experience. It offers insights into the political, cultural, economic, social, ideological, psychological, and geographical factors that characterized conflict in Afghanistan across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Presented by Dr.
Presented by Clark Larsen and Richard Steckel on Oct. 28, 2011 at the Center for Historical Research at The Ohio State University.