Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges

 This is the second event of the REEES Fall 2021 Series The Soviet World in the Long 1970s. You can see the entire event schedule here. Guest: Clare Ibarra is a PhD Candidate in History at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation examines scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. She wants to understand how socialist ideology affected each country’s approach to development, resource extraction, and decolonization. Music: Thomas Dolby, “She Blinded Me with Science”