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Tag: Eastern Europe

A Confluence of Interests

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Mills

Regular readers of this blog know that I have a strong professional interest in things East European (or what we used to call East European–now East Central European or Southeast European) and things Cambodian. The East European interest is professional–I’m an East Europeanist by training. The second is personal and professional–I spent a very exciting…

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Unshredding the Past

Posted on September 21, 2007September 21, 2007 by Mills

It turns out that shredding your documents isn’t as effective as you thought it was. As the East German Communist regime collapsed in 1989, officials of the State Security Service (Stasi) shredded anything they could get their hands on, leaving behind around 16,000 bags of paper shreds. Until now, that meant that these documents were…

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Take a Trip to Prague With Me

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Mills

Once again I’ll be leading a study tour of the “great cities of East Central Europe” for our Center for Global Education. If you’ve ever wanted to go to Prague/Vienna/Budapest, now’s the time. The tour runs from January 5-20 and will focus on the intersection of nation and place in these cities, with a particular…

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Great Moments in East European History–Live on YouTube!

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Mills

It is fashionable to make fun of the hundreds of thousands of silly videos being posted into YouTube every month. But thanks to enterprising YouTubers out there, a number of great moments in East European history are now available in video. Here are my two favorites: On the afternoon of November 9, 1989, East German…

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