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Student reviews of guest lectures

Seizing Stuff in Revolutionary Russia

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Requisitions and Dispossession in Cheliabinsk, 1919. From https://russiainphoto.ru/ By Drake Long OXFORD – Students were pressed Monday, October 10,  to think about the idea of experiencing a revolution. Miami University’s Havighurst Colloquium speaker series continued this week with a lecture by … Continue reading

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Overturning Traditional Narratives of Russian Patriotism

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  Palace Square, St. Petersburg, 20 July 1914. From russiainphoto.ru. By Luke Stanek When we think of our most patriotic moments as a nation, what events tend to surround groundswells of popular patriotism?  In most cases, we might look to engagements … Continue reading

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Melissa Stockdale Shakes Up Traditional World War I Narrative at Miami University

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By Jennifer Fargo When University of Oklahoma Professor of History Melissa Stockdale began her work on World War I, she certainly was not expecting to upend the traditional understanding of the Russian Empire’s place in that conflict. Nearly a century … Continue reading

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Russia in War: Havighurst Speaker Explains Decolonization on the Eastern Front

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N. V. Kharitonov, View of a Village on the Caucasian Front, 1916. By Leigh Winstead OXFORD, OH – On Monday September 16, 2016 Joshua Sanborn, Professor of History at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, came to Harrison Hall at Miami … Continue reading

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Imperial Apocalypse and Decolonization: Havighurst Lecture Series Opens

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By Riley Kane September 19, 2016. Oxford, OH.  Dr. Joshua Sanborn, Professor of History at Lafayette College, opened the Havighurst Center’s “Russia in War and Revolution” Lecture Series on his recent book, Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction … Continue reading

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Let Loose the Word: Dr. John Givens on Tatyana Tolstaya and The Slynx

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By Nicholas Cosentino In 1896, Leo Tolstoy wrote What is Art?[1] as a lament for the lack of morally purposeful art in his time. In an ironic twist of fate, Tatyana Tolstaya, his namesake and a distant heir, laments in … Continue reading

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