Subtitle:
Elizabeth Wood, Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Activity Type:
Lecture
Date:
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 13:00 to 14:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
1228 CL
Contact Person:
Vladimir Padunov
Contact Email:
padunov@pitt.edu
Cost:
Free
Elizabeth Wood is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at MIT where she has taught since 1990. A specialist in Soviet and Russian gender relations and performance issues, she is the author of two monographs, From Baba to Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana University Press, 1997) and Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Cornell University Press, 2005). Her current work centers on the performance of power under Vladimir Putin in Russia today.
UCIS Unit:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Non-University Sponsors:
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
World Regions:
Russia/Eastern Europe