a professor of social and political history at the university of michigan in princeton we have mark eisinger he is professor of politics at princeton university all right gentlemen this is cross-eyed then you can jump in anytime you want mark if i can go to you first in princeton the primary reason why i'm doing this not only is it being twentieth anniversary of the end of the communist party of the soviet union but to remind people of the events of nine hundred ninety one and how much it really changed the world and how we how the world is. moved on from one great epic conflict to maybe another epic conflict and we can throw in the economic crisis here what is the most important legacy of what happened twenty years ago in the country that i'm living in right now russia well i think for there is a there's a global legacy obviously the end of the cold war the end of the division of the planet within russia russia had been ruled soviet union had been ruled by. a party state essentially and but the communist party ended in essence and as it unraveled and essence that control over the state unra