Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This is an interview on the platform Stream yard and the Program Legitimate Targets aired on Friday. The main question considered here is the historical causes for the mutual resentment between the leaders of the EU and Russia? I try to explain why from the proclaimed friendship of the early 2000s the relations deteriorated to a point of undeclared war.
Dr. Brovkin is an American historian of Russia, now retired, a former Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University, he is the author of numerous books on Russian History and politics. His latest book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its identity (Routledge, London 2024) is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Routledge.com. (here is the link: barnesandnoble.com/s/Vladimir%20Brovkin) In addition to Issues of Contemporary Politics playlist, you can find: Russia under Yeltsin and Putin, Russia under the Communist Regime, War in Ukraine, European History and other playlists.
This is an interview on the platform Stream yard and the Program Legitimate Targets aired on Friday. The main question considered here is the historical causes for the mutual resentment between the leaders of the EU and Russia? I try to explain why from the proclaimed friendship of the early 2000s the relations deteriorated to a point of undeclared war.
Dr. Brovkin is an American historian of Russia, now retired, a former Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University, he is the author of numerous books on Russian History and politics. His latest book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its identity (Routledge, London 2024) is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Routledge.com. (here is the link: barnesandnoble.com/s/Vladimir%20Brovkin) In addition to Issues of Contemporary Politics playlist, you can find: Russia under Yeltsin and Putin, Russia under the Communist Regime, War in Ukraine, European History and other playlists.
