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Reflections on a Life in International, Russian and Comparative History
16 October 2024, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Please join us for this Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar with Prof Dominic Lieven
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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SSEES
Location
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Masaryk roomUCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies16 Taviton streetLondonWC1H 0BW
The lecture discusses the impact of decades in a politics department on a historian. One accidental side-effect was spending the last eight years of the Cold War on Margaret Thatcher’s foreign policy advisory committee. Apart from loosing off the odd anecdote, Prof Lieven will explain how being a historian influenced his interpretation of the politics of late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Above all, the lecture discusses how his understanding of Russian history was influenced by his work as an international and comparative historian, and how being a Russianist coloured his understanding of empire.
About the Speaker
Dominic Lieven
He holds various titles including Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Academician Russian Academy of Science, Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Professor Dominic Lieven joined LSE in 1978, became a professor in 1993 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001. He graduated first in the class of 1973 in history from Cambridge University and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard in 1973/4. Subsequently, he has been inter alia a Humboldt Fellow in Germany, and a visiting professor at Tokyo University and Harvard. He was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor at LSE (1978-2011). Head of the Department of Government from 2001 to 2004 and Head of the Department of International History from 2009 to 2011). From there he was a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge (2011-2019) and has been a Honorary Fellow from 2019.