MURFREESBORO,
Tenn. — A U.S. scholar will explain how America must understand economic
policy and political motivations to understand Russian President Vladimir Putin in a free public lecture
set Monday, Nov. 7, at MTSU.
J.
Arch Getty, Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, will deliver the 2016 Strickland
Visiting Scholar Lecture in History at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in Room 160 of MTSU’s College
of Education Building.
Getty’s free lecture, “Understanding Putin,” is open to
the public. A campus map with parking notes is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
Getty, whose
specialty is Russia’s Stalin period and the history of the Soviet Communist
Party, also will meet
with Department of History students and faculty during his visit to MTSU, which
is coordinated by the College of Liberal Arts.
The
Strickland Visiting Scholar program allows students to meet with renowned
scholars whose expertise spans a variety of historical issues. The Strickland
family established the program in memory of Dr. Roscoe Lee Strickland Jr., a
longtime professor of European history at MTSU and the first president of the
university’s Faculty Senate.
Getty is a
former Guggenheim Fellow and a Research Fellow of the Russian State University
for the Humanities in Moscow as well as Senior Visiting Scholar at
the Russian Academy of Sciences. His books include “Origin of the Great Purges: The Soviet
Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938” and his most recent work, “Practicing
Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition.”
Getty’s
research is supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of
Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Foundation,
among others.
A reception and refreshments are
planned for 5:30 p.m. Nov. 7, before Getty’s lecture.
For more
information, please contact MTSU’s Department of
History at 615-898-5798.
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