Interview with Bradley Abrams, independent historian (Ph.D. Stanford). Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on March 3, 2010.
Dr. Abrams is the author of Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism, published in 2004. He is now working on a project on communist-era consumerism.
Interview Themes
How Abrams came to write his first book (00:50)
Reception of Abrams' work in Czech Republic/Slovakia (05:25)
Changes Abrams has observed across the 1989 threshold within the region and the field (10:45)
How the history of consumption fits into a pan-European narrative (22:15)
How we should train the next generation of graduate students (27:37)
To access interview, click here: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/17392
