At 6:30 pm on Friday, December 1, Yuri Slezkine will speak at Simon Fraser University's downtown Vancouver campus.
Yuri Slezkine,
“The Life and Death of the Russian Revolution.”
The talk will follow the lives of the original Bolsheviks from the time they joined the apocalyptic sect known as “the party of a new type” to the time most of them
were arrested for terrorism and treason. It will focus on the connection between private lives and millenarian expectations and attempt to clarify the reasons for socialism’s premature demise.
location: Segal Rooms -- 1400, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver
time: 6:30 pm, December 1, 2017
Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
His publications include Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (Cornell UP, 1994), The Jewish Century (Princeton UP, 2004), and the just-out-in print The
House of Government: A Family Saga of the Russian Revolution and Stalinist Reformation (Princeton UP, 2017).