Soviet Territory and the "Russia Within"
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm CET/GMT+1SR4
In this presentation, Paul W. Werth (Professor of History at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and Gerhard Casper Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin) explores an important dimension of the history of territory in Eurasia: the (partial) reconstruction of the Russian Empire as the USSR and the associated problem of the place of Russia within these multi-national states.
This event is sponsored by Bard College in Annandale, the Open Society University Network, and Smolny Beyond Borders. A pre-circulated text, which those interested in attending will be asked to read in advance, will be available on this page.
Paul W. Werth is Professor of History at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and currently the Gerhard Casper Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, as well as a Gugenheim Fellow. His books include: 1837: Russia’s Quiet Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2021); Revolutions & Constitutions: The United States, the USSR, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, 4th ed. (Ronkonkoma, NY: Linus Learning, 2020); and The Tsar's Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2014).