Occasional Series | Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 | 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Continue reading...Alfred J. Rieber approaches Soviet history through Stalin and the nationality question
Natasha Bluth
On March 28, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the NYU Department of History welcomed Alfred J. Rieber from Central European University for a lecture on his recent book, “Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia.” The event was introduced by Jordan Center Director Yanni Kotsonis and was followed with comments by Stephen Kotkin from Princeton University.
Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation, A Discussion with Robert D. Crews
Natasha Bluth
Kristy Ironside discusses Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families
Anastassia Kostrioukova
On March 6, 2015, the Jordan Center welcomed Kristy Ironside, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, to speak about the Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families that was decreed by Nikita Khrushchev at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941.
Continue reading...Stephen Kotkin on Stalin: Geopolitics, Ideas, Power
Anastassia Kostrioukova
Sept. 26, 2014, marked the first of the Distinguished Lecture series at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. As director Yanni Kotsonis pointed out, the lectures as well as the Center itself are meant to “protect conversations about Russia. If one wants to speak of Russia these days, you need protection; if one wants to speak against, you also need protection.” He added: “The only criterion here is intelligence.”
