Lukes on Radio Prague on Life in Communist Czechoslovakia
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was the subject of a wide-ranging interview on topics including his early life in communist Czechoslovakia and his arrival in New York in the late 1970s.
Lukes was interviewed for a June 26, 2017 segment on Radio Prague entitled “Historian Igor Lukes: Exile Was Much Easier During The Cold War.”
You can listen to the interview 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.