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Spring 2022: Openness, Acceleration, Restructuring: The Soviet 1980s
Fall 2021: The Soviet World in the Long 1970s
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Brian Fairley
UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow
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4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
brf154@pitt.edu
Valeria Umanets
UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow
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4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
v.umanets@pitt.edu
