#eurasianknot — Public Fediverse posts

#EurasianKnot | The #Deforestation of #EasternUkraine w/ guest Brian Milakovsky

"How has the war accelerated the destruction of eastern #Ukraine’s #ecology? And what does this mean for the future? We also get an update on how Brian sees the war at the present moment, when at the time of recording, Putin and Trump were meeting in Alaska."

https://www.euraknot.org/the-deforestation-of-eastern-ukraine/

#ecocide #RussiaUkraineWar #WarInUkraine #ecologyOfWar #forests @ecology @ukraine

"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."

#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees

https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/

#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia

"During #WWII, the Soviet Women’s Antifascist Committee started an experiment – a pen pal campaign with American women to promote the friendship between the United States and the USSR. The program began with fits and starts but eventually gained traction. So much so it continued into the early #ColdWar even as relations between the two countries quickly soured."

#EurasianKnot welcomes #AlexisPeri, author of #DearUnknownFriend

https://www.euraknot.org/cold-war-pen-pals/

#books @bookstodon @histodons

"In 1941, as Nazi forces laid siege to #Leningrad, a group of #SovietBotanists faced an unthinkable choice: eat their life’s work, a rare seed bank, or starve to death. This is the dilemma at the heart of #SimonParkin’s story about the world's first seed bank and its dedicated #botanists."

#EurasianKnot welcomes the author of #TheForbiddenGarden
https://soundcloud.com/euraknot/ek057

#SiegeOfLeningrad #WWII #SovietHistory #SovietScience #SeedBanks #biodiversity #NikolaiVavilov #books @bookstodon @histodons