The International Studies Is Happy to Announce That the Delmas Visiting Professor for The

The Delmas Faculty Seminar, Fall 2002 The Program in International Studies is happy to announce that the Delmas Visiting Professor for the year 2002-2003 will be Professor Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. As with the previous Delmas Visitors Professor Slezkine will offer a seminar for faculty, this year in the fall. He has tentatively titled his faculty seminar as:

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union It will be a survey of the key debates on the history of the Russian revolution, the formation of the USSR, the nature of Stalinism, the Cold War period, the experiences of perestroika and glasnost, the reasons for the dissolution, the main features of the current regime, and the changing role of Russia in the world. Yuri Slezkine, is the coeditor of Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, and the author of Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. Besides being a notable historian of ethnic relations in Russia and Soviet Union, most recently he has edited, with Sheila Fitzpatrick, In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and émigrés, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia in the first half of this century. He is also a regular contributor to SlavicReview. The seminar is currently scheduled for Tuesday afternoons from 4 till 6pm throughout the Fall. Our aim is to establish a relaxed seminar, in pleasant surroundings, that will provide an intellectually and socially satisfying end to the hectic days that you share. We are planning to hold the seminar in comfortable surroundings and unless special classroom technology is required we will hold it in Pratt House, a central location. We are looking for a broad faculty involvement with as many disciplines represented as possible. We would like to emphasize that much of Professor Slezkine’s work is as a social historian, and the seminar will touch on topics away from the economic and political material that are the usual fare of such debate. We hope that our colleagues who are interested in, inter alia, anthropology, political science, history, sociology, religion, women’s studies, urban studies, Russian studies, economics, race and ethnic relations from a global perspective, and in the current complexities of the world join the seminar and thereby participate in an exciting exchange of ideas. We wish to keep the seminar manageably small and plan a total size of not more than 13 faculty members. If you are interested in joining the seminar please let us have a short statement of your interest in the topic by Monday, April 1 to David Kennett, International Studies Program, Box 270 or by email to [email protected].