The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia will host Princeton’s Stephen Kotkin for a public lecture, “Stalin: Geopolitics, Ideas, Power,” on Fri., Sept. 26, 3-5 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall.
New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia will host Princeton’s Stephen Kotkin for a public lecture, “Stalin: Geopolitics, Ideas, Power,” on Fri., Sept. 26, 3-5 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science (100 Washington Square East/between Waverly and Washington Place).
The event, the Jordan Center’s 2014 Distinguished Lecture, is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please click here. For more information, call 212.992.6575. Subway Lines: 6 (Astor Place); N, R (8th Street). Entrances located at 24 Waverly Place and 31 Washington Place.
Kotkin, the John P. Birkelund ’52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University and vice dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, will draw from his forthcoming Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Penguin, Nov.), the first installment in a three-volume history of Stalin and his times. Using military intelligence and secret police materials, the volume offers new insights into Stalin’s paranoid mentality and explains how chaos from revolution and civil war became a permanent feature of Soviet administration. The work also portrays Stalin’s trip to Siberia in 1928 in a new light, capturing the moment when he decided to remake Eurasia, and places the decision for collectivization more deeply than ever in the tragic history of imperial Russia.
Kotkin has authored Steeltown, USSR (1991), Magnetic Mountain (1997), and Armageddon Averted (2008) as well as Uncivil Societies (2009), a co-authored volume, among other works.
The Jordan Center’s annual Distinguished Lecture, delivered by a renowned expert and public intellectual, addresses key problems of Russia’s past, present, and future.
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