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Cantemir Institute

The Cantemir Institute (CI) is a recently established centre of research at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, which focuses on the interdisciplinary study of Central and Eastern Europe in ... Read more

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Two opposed catholic nationalisms: Ukrainian Galicians in the Second Polish Republic (1923-1939)

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Dr Alessandro Milani (EHESS, Paris) gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute East and East-Central Europe seminar series.

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