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Sep 2023
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Episode Two (Season 2): Tony Wood and Il...

The Deutscher Prize
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In our second episode of this second season, historian Tony Wood is joined by Ilya Budraitskis to discuss Budraitski's 2022 book, Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics, and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia.   To learn more about the Deutscher Prize, please visit our website: www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/ 
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