2008 HARVARD UKRAINIAN SUMMER INSTITUTE EVENT
Roman Szporluk, Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University
"Lenin, 'Great Russia,' and Ukraine"
Monday, July 7, 2008, 7-9 p.m.
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS (Center for Government and Int'l Studies)
South, Room 0-20, Harvard University
The 2008 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute is pleased to present a
seminar lecture by Professor Roman Szporluk, "Lenin, 'Great Russia,' and
Ukraine." Professor Szporluk's article by that title is set to appear
in the forthcoming issue of Harvard Ukrainian Studies.
Roman Szporluk is Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University,
and the Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky Research Professor of Ukrainian History
(since 2005). He specializes in modern Ukrainian history,
Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-Russian relations, and nationalism and
Marxism in Central and Eastern Europe. He received his LLM from Maria
Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (1955), his BLitt in the History of
Political Thought from Oxford University (1961), and his Ph.D. from
Stanford University (1965). A select list of Szporluk's works include:
Imperium, komunizm i narody: Wybor esejow (Cracow, 2003); Imperiia ta
natsii (Kyiv, 2001); Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet
Union (Stanford University Press, 2000); Communism and Nationalism: Karl
Marx versus Friedrich List (New York and Oxford, 1991); Ukraine: A Brief
History (Detroit, 1982); and The Political Thought of Thomas G. Masaryk
(Boulder CO 1980). For the full list of Professor Szporluk's
publications (to 2000), see: Zvi Gitelman et al., eds., Cultures and
Nations of central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2000).
Roman Szporluk is currently engaged in the writing of a major book
entitled The Emergence of Modern Ukraine: A History and an Interpretation.
All are welcome to attend!
Cordially,
Steven Seegel
<http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html>
Dr. Steven Seegel
Director, 2008 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
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