At the time, this seemed to be a topic of discussion, but not passionate discussion. In Country Email List other words, people were interested in thinking about it, but it didn't seem to matter much. As for Soviet nostalgia, it was certainly Country Email Listvery strong among the Russian population during the first decades after the fall of the ussr . However, I Country Email List suppose that the generational change has been fading it.
In other words, we now have a whole generation that was not raised or Country Email List educated in the ussr . And one could assume that that will reduce that feeling of nostalgia. However, I'm not sure I can Country Email List confirm this directly through research or observation. It is simply an assumption. How has Russian studies changed since Country Email List the beginning of your career and what are the levels of collaboration with Russian historians today.
Now these relationships are common and there are completely normal contacts. There Country Email List are really productive intellectual collaborations, like that between the British historian Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk in Moscow. In my Country Email List case, I don't have any close collaboration like the one I just mentioned, but of course I have an ongoing Country Email List professional conversation with several Russians who are experts on various topics I work on. Until now, this type of communication has continued. But if the war drags on, this is likely to change: there will be more suspicion of Westerners by Russians (and vice versa), and intellectual and professional relations will suffer. It is not clear what Putin's specific objectives were in invading and, in any case, they have Country Email List probably changed after the disaster of the first advance towards kyiv. But at this point it seems far more likely that Country Email List future historians will see the 2022 invasion as part of the unintentional "making of a Ukrainian Country Email List nation" (Western-oriented, hostile to Russia) than of a state functioning as an obedient client.