The Dilemmas of a ‘Socialist’ Empire: The USSR and its Mission Civilisatrice

This keynote address is a part of the workshop "SovMode–2024: A Decentered Empire: Imperialism, Socialism, and Soviet Modernity," a Collaborative Humanities Project from the Humanities Council.

Ronald Grigor Suny is William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is currently working on a book on the history of the nation-form and the recent upsurge of exclusivist nationalisms and authoritarian populisms — "Forging the Nation: The Making and Faking of Nationalisms."

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (OWNER)

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