Dr. Harun Yilmaz on the Spectres of the National Question

Dr. Harun Yilmaz is Central Asia Research Forum Series academic editor at Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. He is a regional expert on history, national identities, and political propaganda. His academic and popular publications cover Central Asia, Ukraine, and the Caucasus. He received his Master's and Ph.D. from Oxford University. Dr. Yilmaz was a research fellow at Harvard University and Brtish Academy and lectured on the History of the Soviet Union under Stalin at Queen Mary University of London.  He published op-eds for and was interviewed by BBC Azerbaijan, BBC Russia, RFE/RL, Al-Jazeera, NPR, NewsNation. His last book title is National Identities in Soviet Historiography: The rise of nations under Stalin (2015).

We will be discussing the intellectual and geopolitical origins of the national question in Marxist thought, the seeming tensions and contradictions it has created, and why we can't totally get past its legacy.

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