Russian, East European and Eurasian Events
- Marshall Goldman, "Putin's Petrostate: Power, Patronage and the New Russia"
November 3, 2008
7 p.m.
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Marshall I. Goldman is Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College. An expert on the Russian economy and the economics of high technology, he joined the Wellesley faculty in 1958. In 1998, the Wellesley College Alumnae Association awarded him its first Faculty Service Award. He was also Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University from 1975 to 2006.
An internationally recognized authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental policy, Professor Goldman is known for his study and analysis of the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. He is the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union, including The USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System, and Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology (1987), in which he envisioned the monumental problems that would confront Perestroika and which threw the country into economic and political turmoil. His works also include What Went Wrong with Perestroika: The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev (W.W. Norton, 1991), monographs entitled Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Worked (W.W. Norton, 1994) and Lost Opportunity: What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult (Norton, 1996), and The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry (Rutledge, 2003). His most recent book is Petrolstate: Putin, Power and the New Russia (Oxford University Press, April 2008).
A frequent visitor to the republics of the former Soviet Union, Professor Goldman was present during the August, 1991, coup attempt. He has met with Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, former President George Bush, and President George W. Bush and continues to meet regularly with business leaders, diplomats, and government officials at the highest levels in both countries.
A consulting editor to the journal Current History, Goldman's expertise is also sought by the media. He has written frequently for such publications as Current History, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review. His articles have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Science, and he has been a frequent guest on CNN and “Good Morning America.” He has appeared on “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” “Crossfire,” “Face the Nation,” “The Today Show,” and“ Nightline.” He has written regularly for the Russian newspapers, Moscow News and The Moscow Times, and is often heard on National Public Radio.
Past Events
- Slavica Stamatovic "Montenegro Under Construction"
April 18, 2008
Noon
411 Design Building
Slavica Stamatovic is a visiting JFDP scholar at Iowa State from the University of Montenegro. The talk will look at the tradition, reconstruction, heritage and architecture of the area.
- David Satter
"Russia after the Presidential Elections: Is There Hope for Democracy?"
Monday, April 7, 2008
David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent, is a long time observer of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Satter was born in Chicago in 1947 and graduated from the University of Chicago and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and earned a B.Litt degree in political philosophy. He worked for four years as a police reporter for the Chicago Tribune and, in 1976, he was named Moscow correspondent of the London Financial Times. He worked in Moscow for six years during which time he sought out Soviet citizens with the intention of preserving their accounts of the nature of Soviet society for posterity.
After completing his term in Moscow, Satter became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal, contributing to the paper’s editorial page. In 1990, he was named a Thornton Hooper fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and then a senior fellow at the Institute.
Satter has written two books about Russia, Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Knopf, 1996; paperback, Yale) and Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State (Yale, 2003). His books have been translated into Russian, Estonian, Latvian, Portugese, and Vietnamese. Age of Delirium is also being made into a documentary film by the Russian director, Andrei Nekrasov, in a U.S.-German- Ukrainian joint production. The film is to appear on the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union. He is presently working on a new book about the Russian attitude toward the communist past.
Satter has written extensively for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. His articles and op-ed pieces have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The National Interest, National Review, National Review Online, The New Republic, The New York Sun, The New York Review of Books, Reader’s Digest and the Washington Times. He is frequently interviewed in both Russian and English by Radio Liberty, the Voice of America and the BBC and has appeared on Fox News, C-Span, the Charlie Rose Show and other television programs.
- "Roundtable on the Status of Kosovo and Metohija"
Monday, March 3, 2008
Roundtable participants:
Jetmir Likaj, University of Pristina, Pristina, Kosovo
Biljana Vukcevic, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Slavica Stamatovic, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Media Coverage
- Monday, April 16, 2007
"Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Russian Counter-Revolution"
Peter Baker
Washington Post Correspondent
IPTV Plus (Digital Channel 11.2) will air this lecture Thursday, November 15, 2008, at 9:30 p.m.
Baker served as the Post's Moscow bureau chief until late 2004 covering Russia and fourteen former Soviet republics. His nearly four year tour dovetailed with the rise of Vladimir Putin and put him at the center of several political, economic and terrorist world news events including the revival of the Russian economy, the rollback of Russian democracy, the state attack on Russia's richest men, the second Chechen war, and terrorist acts in the Moscow theater and school in Beslan. His book (co-authored with Susan Glasser), "Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and the Russian Counter-Revolution," came out in the fall of 2005.
Following the September 11 attacks, Baker covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Baker was the first American newspaper journalist into Afghanistan where he lived with anti-Taliban rebels and spent eight months covering the conflict and new government. While in Iraq, Baker reported from Saddam Hussein's Baghdad and later was embedded with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force during the U.S. invasion. Glasser covered the battle at Tora Bora in Afghanistan and traveled the Afghan countryside interviewing warlords and drug lords.
Prior to his foreign assignment, Baker served as the Post's White House correspondent covering the Clinton Administration. During this time he co-wrote the original story on the Lewinski investigation and went on to become the Post's lead writer on the scandal and impeachment battle. Baker went on to author the New York Times bestseller, "The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton." Baker started with the Washington Post in 1988 as part of its Virginia staff. Prior to the Post, he worked at the Washington Times. Baker did his undergraduate work at Oberlin College.
The event is sponsored by the REEES program, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Department of Political Science, LAS Miller Lecturers' Fund, and World Affairs Lecture Series.
- Helena Goscilo, UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. "Women's Triumphs in Post-Soviet Russia" - March 2006
- Stephen Kotkin, professor of European and Asian history at Princeton University, "The Soviet Union Vanishes - or Maybe Not? - April 2005
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