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Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help shape

informed investors. In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings. The late,

great Charlie Munger prescribed using multiple mental models and analysis.

We analyze their work through the lens of business, markets, and people.

Thank you to our audience for joining us today.

We are going to look back at really the history of a country.

We're going to think about its currency.

We're going to think about its politics. And we're going to think about what transformation means. Joining us today is

E. Katrina Pravalova with her book, The Rubel, a political history. A little bit about E. Katrina.

She's the Rosengarde Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the director of the Russian

program in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasian Studies at Princeton University. She and the director of the Russian program in Russia, Eastern Europe,

and Eurasian Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of award-winning a public empire,

property, and the quest for common good in imperial Russia, as well as legality and individual

rights, administrative justice in Russia and finances of empire, money and power and Russian policy

in the imperial borderlands published

in Russian. She is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia. She has also received her PhD from the

Russian Academy of Sciences. She was a research scholar at the Academy of Sciences and taught history

at the European University at St. Petersburg from 2002 to 2006. So we're going to get an insiders look at

this up close. I, Katrina, thank you for joining me today. Thank you for inviting me.

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