Category: USSR

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Guest:

• Pietro Shakarian

Topics:

• Research journey, archives Moscow and Yerevan
• Mikoyan’s vision of confederation for the USSR
• Artsakh’s status within Soviet constraints
• De-Stalinization and Armenia’s cultural thaw
• Mikoyan’s stance toward the Armenian Church

Episode 480 | Recorded on October 18, 2025

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Guest:

• Sopo Japaridze

Topics:

• USSR: A common Home & History
• Georgia’s Foreign Agent Bill
• Armenia-Georgian Relations

Episode 330 | Recorded: May 17, 2024

Thirty Years After the USSR

• Dr. Pietro Shakarian is a Lecturer in history at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan. His research focuses on the history of Eastern Armenia and the Caucasus, especially Soviet Armenia during the era of Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw. His analyses on Russia and the former Soviet region have appeared in The Nation, The Plain Dealer, the Russian International Affairs Council, Hetq, and more.

Topics:

• How did the USSR Dissolve, who were the personalities behind it?
• Did Ethnic Nationalism Have a Hand in it?
• Did Ronald Reagan Defeat the Soviet Union?
• What are the

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Guest:

• Pietro Shakarian

Topics:

• The Life and Times of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan

Episode 28 | Recorded on December 3, 2020