“Soviet Communism”
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. This first
CCA of the 2017-2018 academic year will explore that revolution’s
leaders, its animating ideology, and the 70-year history of the
tyrannical regime to which it gave birth.
You
are welcome to watch any or all of these lectures via Hillsdale’s free
live stream. A full schedule of the lectures and speakers is listed
below. If you miss a lecture, video recordings after the event will be
available to watch
here:
*All times listed are Eastern.
Sunday, October 1, 2017, at 4:00 p.m.
“The Rising Spirit of Revolution: 1905-1917”
Mark D. Steinberg
Historian and Author, The Fall of the Romanovs
Sunday, October 1, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.
“Lenin and the Russian Revolution”
Arthur Herman
Historian and Journalist
Monday, October 2, 2017, at 4:00 p.m.
“Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon”
John V. Fleming
Author, The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books that Shaped the Cold War
Monday, October 2, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.
“The Soviet Role in World War II”
Anthony Beevor
Author, Stanlingrad: The Fateful Siege
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at 4:00 p.m.
“Leszek Kolakowski and the Debate Over Marxism in the 20th Century”
Roger Kimball
Editor, The New Criterion
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.
“Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag”
Daniel J. Mahoney
Assumption College
Author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology
Wednesday, October 4, 2017, at 4:00 p.m.
Hillsdale College Faculty Roundtable (No live stream or recording)
Daniel B. Coupland, Chairman
John W. Grant
Stephen P. Naumann
Charles N. Steele
About Center for Constructive Alternatives
Hillsdale’s Center for Constructive Alternatives (CCA) is the
sponsor of one of the largest college lecture series in America. CCA
seminars are held four times each year and feature lectures by
conservative authors, thinkers, and leaders on a wide range of topics.
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