The Davis Center at Harvard University

The MapMaker: Episode 4 - Shakespeare versus Stalin: Why Place Names Matter

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Graduate student Valerie Browne shares her research into the history of Crimean place names. She explains how Stalin attempted to remake the map after World War II and how Wikipedia allowed her to reconstruct the stories of lost, forgotten, and renamed villages.
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