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through exploration and fusion of various culinary traditions coming from its numerous member states. In this episode, he reflects on Naan-Aligned Cooking and, with @jelenadj.bsky.social (RECET), explores the tradition of non-alignment through food and cooking.

New #TransformativePodcast out – What does the Non-Aligned Movement look like on a plate? Starting with a series of informal dinners in Rijeka and expanding into various events and workshops, Kevin Kenjar (University of Rijeka) pays homage to the Non-Aligned Movement …

YouTube video by RECET Vienna A. Shekhovstov: Russia against Ukraine. Russian Political Mythology & the War on Ukrainian Identity

Watch today's Transformative Seminar with @shekhovtsov.substack.com on "Russia against Ukraine. Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity" on YouTube:
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… transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a pivot to explore longer-term processes of economic, social, political, and cultural transformation linked to the rise of neoliberalism and globalization.

In the newest episode of the #TransformativePodcast, our researcher Rosamund Johnston discusses the @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation with co-editor @japvie81.bsky.social. This cutting-edge collection of essays analyzes the pivotal year of 1989 and the …

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Join us this Thursday for a #TransformativeSeminar on "Book Presentation: Russia against Ukraine. Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity" with @shekhovtsov.substack.com

Jimmy Carter and China | Columbia University Press In the late 1970s, with relations between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China strained, the Carter administration saw an opening. The Unite... | CUP

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You can now pre-order the newest book by our researcher Dr. Sheng Peng on "Jimmy Carter and China. Multilateral Competition in the Global Cold War" (forthcomng in March 26 with @columbiaup.bsky.social).

YouTube video by RECET Vienna Zbig Wojnowski: The Roots of Entrepreneurship in Late Soviet Show Business

You can now watch yesterday's #TransformativeSeminar with Zbig Wojnowski (@ox.ac.uk) on "The Roots of Entrepreneurship in Late Soviet Show Business: Profit, Professional Pride, and Responsibility" on YouTube.
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YouTube video by RECET Vienna Kristen Ghodsee & Magdalena Baran-Szołtys: What Has Socialism Done For Women?

Passend dazu @magdalenabaran.bsky.social's Kommentar bei unserem letzten Transformative Salon mit Prof. Kristen Ghodsee
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Die unvollendete Emanzipation Was Sozialismus, Systembruch 1989 und Arbeitszeitpolitik über Macht, Gender und Freiheit verraten

Unsere Forscherin @magdalenabaran.bsky.social mit einem Beitrag für den @derstandard.at Eastblog – "Die unvollendete Emanzipation. Was Sozialismus, Systembruch 1989 und Arbeitszeitpolitik über Macht, Gender und Freiheit verraten" ↓
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Join us on Thursday, Jan 15, 2026, for this year's first #TransformativeSeminar with Zbig Wojnowski (St Antony's College, Oxford) on "The Roots of Entrepreneurship in Late Soviet Show Business: Profit, Professional Pride, and Responsibility"

…and, yes, the end of 2025 saw the release of this volume! The collaborative team effort Hübner by @recetvienna.bsky.social with @japvie81.bsky.social, Rosamund Johnston, @philippther.bsky.social and many more!

At @historians.org, we met new and old friends. EU-GUNS & GlobArms have been collaborating, among others, with the @recetvienna.bsky.social Linking Arms project.

The PI of that project, Rosamund Johnston, was there to talk about it.

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The new year starts with a new #TransformativePodcast episode! Our Scientific Director @japvie81.bsky.social talks to Markéta Bajgerová Verly about China's Everchanging History of WWII!

Tu felix Austria musiziere! Wie die Habsburger mit Märschen und Walzern regierten Der Wiener Historiker Philipp Ther analysiert in "Der Klang der Monarchie" die Durchdringung von Politik und Musik anhand von Beethoven, Strauß und Militärkapellen

Unser Gründungsdirektor @philippther.bsky.social analysiert in "Der Klang der Monarchie" die Durchdringung von Politik und Musik anhand von Beethoven, Strauß und Militärkapellen (via @derstandard.at):
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YouTube video by RECET Vienna Kristen Ghodsee & Magdalena Baran-Szołtys: What Has Socialism Done For Women?

Check it out!
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You missed our December Transformative Salon with Prof. Kristen Ghodsee and @magdalenabaran.bsky.social on "What has Socialism Done for Women?"? Find it on YouTube!

Dwie Stocznie - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego Dwie Stocznie. Budowa statków od socjalizmu do Unii Europejskiej W latach 90. XX wieku państwa Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej przeszły radykalną transformację – od gospodarki socjalistycznej i systemów j...

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Glad to see a Polish translation of the Shipyard's Collective (@philippther.bsky.social et al.) "In the Storms of Transformation. Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU" ("In den Stürmen der Transformation") come out with Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego.

… on the post-Soviet transformation in Ukraine. Listen to this episode wherever you get your pods or through recet.at/podcast

… the legacies of communism, the role of elites and what is happening in this sphere in the context of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Chernii reflects on the legacies of the Soviet system in football, illuminating bottom-up perspectives …

What does football tell us about Ukraine's political and economic transformations after the collapse of the Soviet Union? In this episode of our Transformative Podcast, Kateryna Chernii (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) tells @jelenadj.bsky.social (RECET) about football in the Soviet Union and Ukraine, …

Wyłom w systemie? Firmy polonijne w PRL - Scholar

You can find more information about the book as well as the table of contents on the publisher's website:
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The edited volume contains papers in Polish by all our "Breach in the System. The 'Polonia Firms' 1976-1994" project members as well as by Krzysztof Jasiecki (SGH Warsaw School of Economics / University of Warsaw ).