Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:00 – 7:30pm

Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. New York, NY. 

From the vantage point of 100 years, what was the lasting significance of the Russian Revolution?  Some have argued that European fascism was a direct response to the Bolshevik seizure of power, and hence that the Russian Revolution helped produce the Second World War and the postwar division of Europe.  Others have seen the Revolution as inaugurating a form of rule continuous with earlier Russian authoritarian patterns; from this perspective, the Revolution had relatively little impact on the long-term trajectory of Russian society itself, at least.  Against this background, the panelists will address the nature of the Russian Revolution and its historical consequences up to the present day.

Panelists include

Elissa Bemporad
Associate Professor of History, Queens College & Graduate Center
Author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History

Jane Burbank
Professor of History and Slavic Studies, New York University
Author of Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (with F. Cooper) and Russian Peasants Go to Court:  Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917

Mark Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, Columbia University
Author of What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home and Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century

Moderated by

John Torpey
Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
European Union Studies Center
Co-sponsored by the PhD program in History, Graduate Center