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The Putschcaster

Oliver was born behind the Iron Curtain in the German Democratic Republic, known to most Westerners as ‘East Germany’. He first experienced a revolution as a proud member of the communist youth organisation, the Young Pioneers, when his infantile understanding of the world order, good and bad, was turned on its head, overnight, with the sudden collapse of the Berlin Wall.


Being obsessed with history and power politics from that very moment in 1989, Oliver spent much of his youth studying and attempting to understand the way history unfolds and how, sometimes, a small decision by a single person can change the future for generations to come.

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Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti is one of the world’s leading experts on Russian politics, crime and security (which are often one and the same), which may explain why Moscow banned him indefinitely in 2022. He has been head of History at Keele University in the UK, academic chair of the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, head of the Centre for European Security at the Institute of International Relations Prague and a visiting professor at Rutgers-Newark (USA), MGIMO (Moscow), Charles University (Czech Republic) and the European University Institute (Italy). He now heads the Russia-focused consultancy Mayak Intelligence and is an honorary professor at University College London as well as a senior fellow with the Council on Geostrategy in London, the University of Kent, and the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has briefed widely, from prime ministers and CEOs to generals and intelligence chiefs.

https://putschcast.com/guest/mark-galeotti/

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Michalis Sotiropoulos

Michalis Sotiropoulos is currently the 1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the British School at Athens. He is a historian of modern Europe specialising in the intellectual history of the Mediterranean and the Greek world in the long nineteenth century. His publications include studies of the Greek Revolution of 1821, on law and the formation of states, and on the historiography on the Age of Revolutions.