About
The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies is an organized research unit at the University of California, Berkeley that serves as the focal point for students and faculty who conduct research and teaching on the geographic region of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ISEEES's mission is to support research, graduate training, and a broad array of scholarly and public programs--such as conferences, lectures, faculty and graduate student seminars, publications, and weekly bag lunch talks. ISEEES also provides funding for visiting teaching appointments of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian specialists, both US and foreign, and it hosts numerous visiting scholars and public figures from around the world. ISEEES includes the National Resource Center for Russian and East European studies, funded by a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education.
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
The Soviet idea: an experiment?
In this presentation, I review the historical milestones in Soviet history from December 1978-1989. The presentation was done in History 171C class that was taught by Professor Rebekah Ramsay in Spring 2023 at UC Berkeley.
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One hundred years of Slavic Collecting at UC Berkeley Library
In this presentation at the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference, Dr. Liladhar R. Pendse, UC Berkeley Librarian for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, provides the overview of one hundred and fifty years of collection development in the field of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at University of California-Berkeley
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Living in the Question? The Berlin Nuclear Crisis Critical Oral History
This research brings together the formal and informal historical voices of the Berlin Wall Crisis of 1961 and scrutinizes the questions asked by significant politicians, scholars, and students almost thirty years later. The formal history comes from Berlin Wall Critical Oral History meetings, held 1988 to 1990 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and includes primary sources about the crisis either written by the participants themselves or about their participation in the decision making during the Berlin Crisis. The informal history draws from memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, and written memos and letters found in archives. Anecdotal material drawn from the back-channeling correspondence between Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev and US president John F. Kennedy and personality profiles mandated by the US State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency are also included. The author investigates the link between memory and history. This working paper brings the reader into the mindset of the Berlin Crisis participants.