The MapMaker: Episode 4 - Shakespeare versus Stalin: Why Place Names Matter

from The Davis Center at Harvard University · host The Davis Center

Graduate student Valerie Browne shares her research into the history of Crimean place names. She explains how Stalin attempted to remake the map after World War II and how Wikipedia allowed her to reconstruct the stories of lost, forgotten, and renamed villages.

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