This year has been a year when I have looked back in time. In two publications I have returned to Georgia in 1988 and the last Soviet years. Together with Märta-Lisa Magnusson and other colleagues we published the anthology “Vi såg sammanbrottet” (We witnessed the break-up – Six […]
Thank you to the Circassian Cultural Centre for organizing this unique forum for specialists in Caucasian Studies, with a special focus on Circassian topics. Director Prof. Merab Chukhua together with researchers Larisa Tuptsokova, Mariam Bezhitashvili and other co-workers at the CCC achieved an impressing event, that took place […]
“We witnessed the break-up.” – Six Swedish and Danish researchers on the final years of the USSR seen from the Caucasus The new book is edited by Märta-Lisa Magnusson and myself, and is published in the series Caucasus Studies, Malmö University, 2021. We are a multidisciplinary group of […]
It was fun to make a new “Saturday quiz” for the daily newspaper Sydsvenskan. The topic of the quiz this time was the Soviet Union, and more specifically, the fall of the Soviet Union, now 30 years ago. I wrote the quiz together with my colleague Prof. Bo […]