Yuri Slezkine
Jane K. Sather Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture
November 12, 2014 — 4:10 PMBerkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Gund Theater — 2625 Durant Avenue (between College and Bowditch), Berkeley
About the Lecture The lecture will focus on the private lives of Bolshevik government officials: their wives, maids, lovers, children, and other comrades. The argument is that revolutions devour their parents and that they begin as tragedy and end at home. … Continued
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Gund Theater - 2625 Durant Avenue (between College and Bowditch), Berkeley Berkeley Graduate Lectures [email protected] false MM/DD/YYYYAbout the Lecture
The lecture will focus on the private lives of Bolshevik government officials: their wives, maids, lovers, children, and other comrades. The argument is that revolutions devour their parents and that they begin as tragedy and end at home.
About Yuri Slezkine
Professor Slezkine is an innovative historian whose work focuses on the early years of the Soviet Union. By centering the cultural and political upset of revolution within domestic space, Slezkine will reimagine the story of the Bolsheviks’ rise. This Moses Lecture follows on Slezkine’s work as translator and co-editor, with Sheila Fitzpatrick, of In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (2000), which reexamined the societal upheavals of those years through the lens of Soviet women’s autobiographical writings, oral testimonies and private documents.
Appointed the Jane K. Sather Professor of History in 2009, Professor Slezkine has been a member of the UC Berkeley Department of History since 1992. His numerous and wide-ranging publications have focused on ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union, as well as Soviet historiography, ethnography and ethnogenetics. Winner of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award, among several other prizes, Slezkine’s groundbreaking book The Jewish Century has been translated into seven languages and remains both widely respected and controversial. Earlier publications include: Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small People of the North (1994), Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture (co-editor, with Galya Diment, 1993), and the article “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism” (Slavic Review,1994).