Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Understanding Putin in the Shadow of Soviet and Russian History

VENUE:Present Day Club

Understanding Putin in the Shadow of Soviet and Russian History

| Eurasia Program

About the Event

S KotkinWhy, if Russia is in decline, does Putin seem to be trumping the West? How do the latest events in Ukraine, Syria/Iraq, and Paris change the state of affairs between the US and Russia? What is Putin thinking? To answer these questions, we are pleased to feature Stephen Kotkin, a critically acclaimed historian of the Soviet Union and Russia, whose latest book, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, is much more than a biography, as it places Stalin in a larger geopolitical context. And it is through that same lens of geopolitics that we have asked Kotkin to assess Vladimir Putin. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times.  He serves as a consultant on emerging markets and global trends for the World Pension Forum. He received his Ph.D. in history from UC/Berkeley.


Venue

Present Day Club

72 Stockton Street
Princeton. NJ. US. 08540


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Open exclusively to FPRI Members (and spouses) at the $250 level.


Speakers

Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin - Stephen Kotkin is an FPRI Eurasia Fellow and the Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he directs the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and co-directs the Program in the History and Practice of Diplomacy. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.