Reflections on a Life in Russian, Imperial and International History

A lecture by Dominic Lieven (Cambridge) for the Centre for International History Seminar Series.

This talk is partly about what it meant to be a historian of Russia in the West during the Cold War. It is in part autobiography. Above all it discusses the impact of international and imperial history on a historian of Russia - and vice- versa. Since the speaker played a minor role advising government and the media in the last decade of the Cold War they will also briefly discuss their experience of the links between academia on the one hand, and policy, politics and the media on the other.

The Centre for International History draws on the burgeoning insights of scholars in the past few decades that history does not stop at the border of the nation-state.  International history explores comparative approaches and uncovers transnational flows of commerce, politics, culture, and ideas.  The Centre's research seminars and public events will display these methods while examining historical developments across the globe especially in the late modern period.

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