Anastas Mikoyan: Dodging the Raindrops

SEP 22, 2021-1 MIN
EVN Report Podcasts

Anastas Mikoyan: Dodging the Raindrops

SEP 22, 2021-1 MIN

Description

  A specialist in 19th and 20th century Russian and Eurasian history, Dr. Pietro Shakarian speaks to EVN Report about the intricate and complicated history surrounding Soviet Armenian statesman Anastas Mikoyan, how his ethnicity informed his politics, his role in the purges and later in the series of political reforms after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953 known as de-Stalinization.