Stalin: Waiting for Hitler. Ashoka University organises a lecture by Professor Stephen Kotkin
Ashoka
University invites you to a lecture on Stalin: Waiting for Hitler
by
Professor Stephen Kotkin from Princeton University.
Stephen Kotkin is John
P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs; Co-Director,
Program in History and the Practice of Diplomacy; Director, Princeton Institute
for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. He is one
of the most distinguished historians of our time.
He is the author of
several books including the highly acclaimed and path-breaking Magnetic
Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995) Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era (1991; 1993). He
has also written extensively on contemporary Russia.
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler is also the title of the second part of his two-volume biography of Stalin. The first volume, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928; was published in 2014
Date: 18th December
2017
Time: 5:30 pm
onwards
Venue: Lecture Hall
#2, India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi