- Freitag, 01. März 2013 12.30 In meinem Kalender speichern
The Stalin Puzzle
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington DC 20036
Sixty years after his death on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin still commands worryingly high levels of admiration in the post-Soviet space. The Carnegie Endowment’s Russia and Eurasia Program and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung are co-hosting a discussion on the endurance of the Stalin phenomenon in a new publication, The Stalin Puzzle: Deciphering Post-Soviet Public Opinion, with two of the three authors Lasha Bakradze and Maria Lipman. The report is based on the first-ever comparative opinion polls on the dictator in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment in 2012. The results suggest de-Stalinization has not succeeded in the former Soviet Union and most post-Soviet citizens have not come to grips with their history.
Copies of The Stalin Puzzle will be available at the event.
Speakers
Lasha Bakradze has been the director of the Georgian State Museum of Literature since 2010. He is also a professor at the Ilia University of Tbilisi. From 2005 to 2009 he was head of the Film Preservation Department and Archive Project at the Georgian National Film Center. He has also worked as a journalist, film-maker, and actor.
Thomas de Waal is a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment, specializing primarily in the South Caucasus region comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and their breakaway territories, as well as the wider Black Sea region. He is the author of The Caucasus: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Maria Lipman is the chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Society and Regions Program. She is also the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by the Carnegie Moscow Center. She served as deputy editor of the Russian weekly newsmagazines Ezhenedel’ny zhurnal (2001-2003) and Itogi (1995-2001).
Moderator
Michael Dobbs is a non-fiction author and journalist who spent much of his career covering the collapse of communism. He has worked for the Washington Post as a U.S. State Department reporter and launched their “Fact Checker” column. Dobbs is the author of the “Cold War trilogy,” a series of books about the climactic moments of the Cold War. His latest book is Six Months in 1945 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012).
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1779 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington DC 20036
Sixty years after his death on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin still commands worryingly high levels of admiration in the post-Soviet space. The Carnegie Endowment’s Russia and Eurasia Program and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung are co-hosting a discussion on the endurance of the Stalin phenomenon in a new publication, The Stalin Puzzle: Deciphering Post-Soviet Public Opinion, with two of the three authors Lasha Bakradze and Maria Lipman. The report is based on the first-ever comparative opinion polls on the dictator in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment in 2012. The results suggest de-Stalinization has not succeeded in the former Soviet Union and most post-Soviet citizens have not come to grips with their history.
Copies of The Stalin Puzzle will be available at the event.
Speakers
Lasha Bakradze has been the director of the Georgian State Museum of Literature since 2010. He is also a professor at the Ilia University of Tbilisi. From 2005 to 2009 he was head of the Film Preservation Department and Archive Project at the Georgian National Film Center. He has also worked as a journalist, film-maker, and actor.
Thomas de Waal is a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment, specializing primarily in the South Caucasus region comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and their breakaway territories, as well as the wider Black Sea region. He is the author of The Caucasus: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Maria Lipman is the chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Society and Regions Program. She is also the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by the Carnegie Moscow Center. She served as deputy editor of the Russian weekly newsmagazines Ezhenedel’ny zhurnal (2001-2003) and Itogi (1995-2001).
Moderator
Michael Dobbs is a non-fiction author and journalist who spent much of his career covering the collapse of communism. He has worked for the Washington Post as a U.S. State Department reporter and launched their “Fact Checker” column. Dobbs is the author of the “Cold War trilogy,” a series of books about the climactic moments of the Cold War. His latest book is Six Months in 1945 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012).
To RSVP for this event, please click here.