Part of the Department of History's 2017/2018 Lecture Series The Rise of Extremism
This is a free event and is open to the general public.
ABSTRACT
The talk will follow the lives of the original Bolsheviks from the time they joined the apocalyptic sect known as 鈥渢he party of a new type鈥� to the time most of them were arrested for terrorism and treason. It will focus on the connection between private lives and millenarian expectations and attempt to clarify the reasons for socialism鈥檚 premature demise.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (Cornell UP, 1994), The Jewish Century (Princeton UP, 2004), The House of Government: A Family Saga of the Russian Revolution and Stalinist Reformation (Princeton UP, 2017), and numerous articles.