An Evening with Professor Stephen Kotkin

Lecture & Discussion on Russia, Ukraine, and the Future of the International Order

Join us at the University of San Francisco for a special evening with Stephen Kotkin, one of the world’s leading historians of Russia and the Soviet Union. Kotkin is the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He previously taught for 33 years at Princeton University, where he was the John P. Birkelund ’52 Professor in History and International Affairs and director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Kotkin is renowned for his groundbreaking studies of Soviet history. His three-volume biography of Josef Stalin has reshaped our understanding of Stalinism, the nature of totalitarian power, and the legacies of Soviet communism for contemporary Russia and the international order.

This event will feature a lecture by Stephen Kotkin, followed by a discussion moderated by Elliot Neaman (Professor, History) and Paul Zeitz (Professor Emeritus, Mathematics). The evening will focus on the war in Ukraine, and more broadly on current international relations involving NATO, the European Union, and the Trump administration.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a timely and incisive conversation about Russia, Ukraine, and the future of the global order.

Sponsored by the Departments of History and Politics
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