MIT Starr Forum: Palaces & Sandcastles: Deconstructing Putin’s Power
When:
Monday, Mar 01, 2021 12:00p -
1:00p
Monday, Mar 01, 2021 12:00p -
1:00p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences, University, Virtual & Streaming
Event website:
http://calendar.mit.edu/event/PutinsPower
Please register for this Zoom event at http://bit.ly/3jyhlyi
Featuring:
Sam Greene professor in Russian politics and director of the Russia Institute at King’s College London. Prior to moving to London in 2012 to join King’s, Greene lived and worked in Moscow for 13 years, most recently as director of the Centre for the Study of New Media & Society at the New Economic School, and as deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science. His most recent book, co-authored with Graeme Robertson, is Putin v the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia, published in 2019 by Yale University Press.
A session of the Focus on Russia Lecture Series co-chaired by Elizabeth Wood, professor of history at MIT and faculty director of the MIT Russia Program; and Carol Saivetz, a senior advisor in the MIT Security Studies Program (SSP).
