Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
In this video I focus on 4 questions: 1.Why did Putin not help save the Assad regime? 2. What was the role of the foreign actors: Turkey, Iran, the US and Israel? 3. What are the competing tribal and religious minorities in Syria and what do they want? 3. What are the consequences of these dramatic events?
Dr. Brovkin is an American historian, now retired, who used to be a professor of Soviet History at Harvard university. He is the author of many articles and six books on Russian history. His latest book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its identity (Routledge London 2023) is available at Routledge and Amazon
In this video I focus on 4 questions: 1.Why did Putin not help save the Assad regime? 2. What was the role of the foreign actors: Turkey, Iran, the US and Israel? 3. What are the competing tribal and religious minorities in Syria and what do they want? 3. What are the consequences of these dramatic events?
Dr. Brovkin is an American historian, now retired, who used to be a professor of Soviet History at Harvard university. He is the author of many articles and six books on Russian history. His latest book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its identity (Routledge London 2023) is available at Routledge and Amazon
