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


See also
The Bolshevik Heritage (EPW, November 4, special issue on 1917)

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