Vladislav Zubok

@VladislavZubok1

Historian of international relations and Russia

Brighton, UK
Joined August 2021
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    Dec 7

    Whatever one thinks the Russian gambit ultimately is, one thing it validates is that Moscow can vote to place itself pretty high on the agenda. Attempts to craft strategy in an imagined China only or China mostly universe are going to get consistently mugged by that reality.

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  2. Dec 7

    The 30th anniversary of the fall of the USSR via

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    Nov 20

    A thought-provoking article by , where he argues the US should arm-twist Ukraine to meet Russia's demands on Donbas: . I see it has triggered an interesting debate among experts. My take is as follows: 👇🏿

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  4. Nov 23

    My book on the Soviet Collapse appeared in bookstores. This is Waterstone on Garrick Street.

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    Sep 7

    Time to push back on the allegation that historians at universities ignore war. We teach a lot about it, and we have the receipts!

    William Hitchcock and Meghan Herwig show that historians have not "declared war" on the study of war
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  6. Sep 5

    Today was the day that some Russian democrats 30 years ago considered as the e Soviet Union. On that day the supreme constitutional power in Moscow passed from Congress of People’s Deputies to the State Council of nine republican leaders. Nobody remembers today.

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    Aug 26

    This is...something. After criticizing the US for "abandoning" Afghanistan, major NATO allies (minus UK) have all ended evacuation flights from Kabul several days before the US: 1/2

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    Aug 15

    For all the talk of Afghan corruption, why so little reporting on U.S. Defense contractors and Beltway bandits who skimmed off the top of the $978 billion Afghan war

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    Aug 15

    Must-read report by Afghan war vereteran on role of secrecy, lies, and corruption in debacle -- those most to blame ("cautiously optimistic" in public while knowing, for years, that US was losing) will now be the loudest in faulting others

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  10. Aug 15

    The meltdown of the Afghan army created by the US and paid by billions if US taxpayers money has no parallels in the history of US foreign policy withdrawals. The fall of Saigon is far surpassed. Afghanistan as a tomb of US global power?

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    Aug 12

    Exclusive: American negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to avoid evacuating as the extremist group advances toward the capital after seizing cities across Afghanistan.

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    Aug 11

    Job in eastern European, Russian, or Soviet history at the excellent ANU.

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