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Sphere of Influence II
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Ivan VejvodaStephen Kotkin
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Courage: A Conceptual History
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Aner BarzilayLudger HagedornEdward Skidelsky
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Shifting Sands: The Lure of “Alignments a la Carte” and the True Meaning of “America is Back”
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Soli ÖzelIvan Krastev
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The Limits of Migration Control
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Dariusz StolaIvan VejvodaRanabir Samaddar
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Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion.
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Series: Lecture
Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion.
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Europe and the World After Ukraine
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Heather GrabbeIvan VejvodaNathalie TocciStefan LehneMisha Glenny
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Democratic and Autocratic Outcomes of the Post-Soviet Political Development (1991–2022)
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Mikhail MinakovMisha Glenny
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Judenplatz 1010
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Timothy Snyder
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Is This the End of American Democracy?
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Misha GlennyRichard Parker
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Preparing for a Fascist America
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Jason StanleyMarci Shore
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Will the Human Race Become Redundant?
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Robert Skidelsky
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