The Kennan Institute
The Kennan Institute is an independent, non-partisan institute for research on Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and the post-Soviet states.
- 🔴 The Long View #005 Benjamin Nathans discusses the relationship between the #Jewish emigration movement and the broader #Soviet dissident movement in the late #ColdWar period. ▶️ Watch the full conversation on YouTube
- ⚪ Origins of the War A conversation with @radchenko.bsky.social 📅 February 11 🕙 10:00 AM ET RSVP Now ⬇️ zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- 🔵 A single voice, a winter of war. “They want to wipe us out and make us run away, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.” From Dark Winter. www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/dar...
- 🔴 HAPPENING TOMORROW
- 🔴 The Long View #009 German Prisoners of War in World War II A conversation with historian @susangrunewald.bsky.social on captivity, repatriation, and postwar memory. February 5, 2026 | 11:00 AM ET RSVP Now ⬇️ zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- 🔴 The Long View #006 @zygaro.bsky.social challenges the idea that the Soviet Union was widely defended at the end. If it had been so precious, he asks, why was there no one left to protect it?
- 🔴 The Long View #006 @zygaro.bsky.social reflects on why Mikhail Gorbachev resists simple judgment. Neither hero nor failure, he emerges as a deeply human figure shaped by memory, conscience, and personal relationships.
