Russia and Ukraine: How we got here
Michael Berkman leads this week's interview on the evolution of Russia and Ukraine in the post-Soviet era to understand the origins of the current conflict between the countries.
Democracy Works · Donna Bahry, Michael Berkman
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Show Notes
Was the war in Ukraine inevitable? What is Vladimir Putin trying to achieve? What does the conflict say about Ukraine as a democracy? Those are just a few of the questions Michael Berkman explores this week with Donna Bahry, professor emerita of political science at Penn State and an expert in Soviet and post-Soviet politics and democratization.
Donna has studied Russia and the Soviet Union for decades and traveled to the country dozes of time from late Gorbachev era through 2018. She also talks about the challenges of doing scholarly work in the region and how that task will become even more difficult in the wake of the current crisis.
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