๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ง? ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ค๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ง (๐๐ฉ #๐๐) [EP28]
Posted on Friday, Dec 4, 2020 | Series: COG
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Soviet or Armenian? The Life and Times of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan
Born in Sanahin, Armenia in 1895, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was the most prominent Soviet state figure of Armenian origin. A survivor, Mikoyan managed to weather every Soviet leader from Lenin to Brezhnev. He was once the #2 man in Moscow after Nikita Khrushchev, and his legacy is complex. Today on Groong, we will explore this extraordinary historical figure.
To help us unpack the historical legacy of Mikoyan, ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ซ๐จ ๐๐ก๐๐ค๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง joins us today from Cleveland. Pietro is a historian and a Ph.D. candidate in Russian History at the Ohio State University. His dissertation focuses on Mikoyanโs reforms in de-Stalinization and the nationality sphere in the Khrushchev-era USSR. His analyses on Russia, Armenia, and the post-Soviet space have appeared in The Nation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Russian International Affairs Council, Russia Direct, and Hetq. He has also worked with the Gomidas Institute in London on the republication of 19th century accounts of the Russian Caucasus and Armenia.
Editors:
- ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ง
- ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ค ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐๐ง
Web: https://groong.org/podcasts/CoG-20201203.html Episode 28 Recorded on Dec. 3, 2020
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Pietro Shakarian
Dr. Pietro Shakarian is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Historical Research at the National Research UniversityโHigher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is currently completing his book on the major role of Anastas Mikoyan in Soviet nationality policy reform and de-Stalinization during the era of Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw. Dr. Shakarian’s analyses on Russian and post-Soviet affairs have appeared in The Nation, The Plain Dealer, and various other publications. He was previously a lecturer in history at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan.