Tsuyoshi Hasegawa discusses his acclaimed new book, The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs, which draws on a trove of new archival discoveries. In conversation with Prof. Lewis Siegelbaum of Michigan State, Prof. Hasegawa explores how Nicholas II’s resistance to reform and blinkered faith in autocracy doomed the monarchy.
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), and the LSE Cold War Studies Project (CWSP) of the London School of Economics and Political Science are pleased to announce their 2025 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from May 8 to May 10, 2025.
This riveting ABC TV documentary film chronicles the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 and the hostage crisis that consumed the United States throughout the presidential election year of 1980,
On Saturday, May 25, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host an in-person workshop from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm at the West Campus Point faculty housing community. We will be reading and discussing a paper, "The Gulag Labor Camps as Laboratories of Carceral Eugenics," by Alexandra Noi, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB History Department.
Two UCSB doctoral students, Hayate Murayama of the History Department and Shelby King of the Religious Studies Department, will deliver brief talks based on their original research.
On Saturday, April 20, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host an in-person workshop from 11:00-12:30 pm at the West Campus Point faculty housing community's outdoor plaza. We will be reading and discussing a paper, "The Spirit of Tashkent: Soviet Internationalism, Peaceful Coexistence, and Third World Conflict," by Matt Brown, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB History Department.
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa discusses his acclaimed new book, 
