Letters and Politics

KPFA Special – A Recent History of Russia, Ukraine, and the West

Guest: Tony Wood is a political and social historian most recently, of modern Latin America. His current work focuses on transnational radical debates on race, class, and nation in the 1920s and 1930s, tracing connections between Mexico, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. Wood is an specialist on Russia and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence, and Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War.