Odessa Recollected - Herlihy, Patricia
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Explores the Ukrainian city of Odessa - formerly an economic asset for the Russian Empire and a resort town for the Soviet Union, and always a non-conformist city, it has become a contested area. Given the current hostilities in Eastern Ukraine, and with the potential for Odessa to become a possible land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, the fate of the former Pearl of the Black Sea hangs in suspension.

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Explores the Ukrainian city of Odessa - formerly an economic asset for the Russian Empire and a resort town for the Soviet Union, and always a non-conformist city, it has become a contested area. Given the current hostilities in Eastern Ukraine, and with the potential for Odessa to become a possible land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, the fate of the former Pearl of the Black Sea hangs in suspension.
Autorenporträt
A native San Franciscan, Patricia Herlihy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and obtained her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Odessa: A History 1794-1914 (Harvard University Press. 1987); The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2002); Vodka: A Global History  (Reaktion Books, 2012). She is Professor Emerita from Brown University (2001) and Louise Wyant Professor Emerita, Emmanuel College (2009). Currently Adjunct Professor, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is a former Co-Master (with David Herlihy) of Mather House Harvard University (1976-1986). She has six children and six grandchildren.