The Russian Revolution and the Making of a Self-Denying Empire

Historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Ronald Grigor Suny deliver a lecture on class and nationality in the Russian Empire at a symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The lecture took place on July 1 in Yerevan.

Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian historian renowned for her expertise on Soviet and modern Russian history, particularly during Joseph Stalin’s rule.

Ronald Grigor Suny is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Michigan and emeritus professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago

This year’s Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia took place in Yerevan, Tbilisi, and Istanbul from July 1 to July 20.