National History Center -- William Taubman ("Gorbachev: His Life and Times") w/Svetlana Savranskaya and Michael Dobbs @ Wilson Center:
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In his Gorbachev biography, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy turned into the Soviet system’s gravedigger, why the Communist regime allowed him to destroy it, why Gorbachev’s dream of democratizing the USSR foundered, how he and President Ronald Reagan turned out to be almost perfect partners, and why Gorbachev permitted Eastern Europe to abandon Communism with firing a shot. Taubman’s talk will emphasize the impact of Gorbachev’s personality on his policies and his fate. Svetlana Savranskaya and Michael Dobbs will comment.
William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College, is the author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle award in 2003. He chairs the Academic Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Wilson Center, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 2009.
The Washington History Seminar thanks the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute for this sponsorship of this event.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- TAUB_171023_047.JPG: (left to right) Eric Arnesen, William Taubman, Christian F. Ostermann, Svetlana Savranskaya
- TAUB_171023_067.JPG: Svetlana Savranskaya
- TAUB_171023_102.JPG: William Taubman and Svetlana Savranskaya
- TAUB_171023_164.JPG: Svetlana Savranskaya and Michael Dobbs
- TAUB_171023_243.JPG: Dane Kennedy
- TAUB_171023_278.JPG: Christian Ostermann
- TAUB_171023_280.JPG: Eric Arnesen
- TAUB_171023_304.JPG: Eric Arnesen, Christian F. Ostermann, William Taubman, Svetlana Savranskaya, and Michael Dobbs
- TAUB_171023_333.JPG: William Taubman
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The mission of the Center is to commemorate the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson by: providing a link between the world of ideas and the world of policy; and fostering research, study, discussion, and collaboration among a full spectrum of individuals concerned with policy and scholarship in national and world affairs.
Throughout the year, they present free lunchtime and other policy discussions. They are affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution but they are also independent. Their home page is at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/.
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