Lukes on Radio Praha on the 1948 Prague Communist Coup

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Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent radio segment on United States diplomacy and the 1948 communist coup d’état in Prague.

Lukes was interviewed for a March 10, 2018 segment on Radio Praha entitled “US Diplomacy and the Czechoslovak Communist Coup D’etat Of 1948: A Story of Naïveté and Shock.

You can listen to the segment below:

Igor Lukes writes primarily about Central Europe. His publications deal with the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia.  His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In 1997 Lukes won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.