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A Short Story Of Everything - David Christian

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Studying Russian History

When I grew up, the Soviet Union seemed like half the world. So studying Russia for someone who grew up in England was a bit like studying the other half of humanity. In no institution that I know of, do we actually teach courses on humanity, the history of humanity? That's not the best way to study humans with nuclear weapons.

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