From Ivan the Terrible to Stalin, some of the most famous – and infamous – people ever to rule Russia and the Soviet Union are coming under scrutiny in a new series of ֱ̽ of Cambridge lectures.
From Ivan the Terrible to Stalin, some of the most famous – and infamous – people ever to rule Russia and the Soviet Union are coming under scrutiny in a new series of ֱ̽ of Cambridge lectures.
ֱ̽ ֱ̽’s Slavonic Department is running a series of public lectures on the theme of “Writing Russian Lives”.
ֱ̽series will focus on how the lives of these “great” men and women have been documented by biographers. It begins this evening with a talk on Ivan ֱ̽Terrible, and will then, in the run-up to Christmas, look at Peter the Great, Alexander I and Catherine the Great.
From February until March the focus will be mainly on the Soviet era, with lectures on Lenin, Khrushchev, Stalin, and finally Herzen, one of the “fathers of Russian socialism”.
All lectures are at 5.30pm in the Umney Theatre, in Robinson College. Admission is free.
ֱ̽full programme is:
Michaelmas Term
Professor Maureen Perrie (Birmingham): Ivan the Terrible 12 October 2006
Professor Tony Lentin (Open ֱ̽): Peter the Great 26 October 2006
Professor Dominic Lieven (SSEES): Alexander I 2 November 2006
Professor Simon Dixon (Leeds): Catherine the Great 23 November 2006
Lent Term
Professor Chris Read (Warwick): Lenin 1 February 2007
Dr Ian Thatcher (Brunell): Khrushchev 15 February 2007
Professor Ron Suny (Chicago): Stalin 1 March 2007
Dr Aileen Kelly (Cambridge): Herzen 8 March 2007
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