Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material as well as for ideas about forms of related activism and community work. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Reading.

Katherine Verdery

• Verdery's page at CUNY
• Verdery article in Reed Magazine, 2005
• Verdery's essay in Thinking Reed, 2011

USSR and Romania

• Map: USSR in 1989
• Post-Soviet States (Wikipedia)
• Romania maps (Perry Castenada Library)
• Nicolae Ceausescu (Wikipedia)
• Ceausescu's last speech (Dec 1989, see 2:45 where the crowd in Bucharest turns on him, Youtube)
• "Romania's Revolution of 1989: an Enduring Enigma," (NYT, 1999)
• "Key Players Recall Romania's Bloody Revolution," (Speigel Online, 2009)
• Romania Revealed (Alina Stefanescu blog)
• Centre for Romanian Studies (blog)

Bernie Madoff: Ponzi and Pyramid Schemes, Dec 2008

• Bernard Madoff (Wikipedia)
• "Bernie Madoff's 50 Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme" (Forbes mag)
• "The Talented Mr. Madoff" (NYT, 2010)
• "How Does a Ponzi Scheme Work?" (AP, Dec 2008)

 

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