ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000
Laboratories of Humanitarianism is a ground-breaking history of the Soviet collapse that explores the transformative impact of humanitarian crisis on the country’s disintegration and the reconfiguration of the post-Soviet world. To explore this impact, the project takes a panoramic approach and explores humanitarianism at multiple scales using case studies from across the vast territory of the Soviet Union. At the heart of the project is one fundamental question: What is the role of humanitarian action in contexts of state collapse and reconstitution? To answer this question, the project brings together a multilingual and dynamic research team to explore the impact of humanitarian…
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