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About Stephen Bittner

Stephen V. Bittner is Special Topics Editor at Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and Professor of History at Sonoma State University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:

History Ex Silo May 20, 2023

Empires after World War II: The Cases of the USSR and France

A Discussion with Rachel Applebaum and Emily Marker

Rachel Applebaum and Emily Marker

Hosted by Stephen Bittner
Where lay the fissures of Soviet power in Eastern Europe during the Cold War? Why did France fail in its postwar efforts to make its African colonies part of France …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 28, 2023

Soviet Hippies and German “Other ‘68ers”

A Conversation about Youth Non-Conformity and Protest

Juliane Fürst and Anna von der Goltz

Hosted by Stephen Bittner
On first glance, Soviet hippies would seem to have little in common with right-wing student protestors in West Germany in 1968. Yet as Juliane Fürst and Anna von der Goltz …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 21, 2023

Rethinking the End of the Russian and Habsburg Empires

A Discussion with Joshua Sanborn and Dominique Kirchner Reill

Joshua Sanborn and Dominique Kirchner Reill

Hosted by Stephen Bittner
Historians often think of World War I and the period surrounding it as the acme of nationalism in European politics. In two very different books, Joshua Sanborn and Dominique Kirchner …