World War I and the Collapse of the Russian Empire
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- Date/Time
- 10/19/2017 4:15 PM EST - 6:00 PM EST
- Location
- Batten Arts & Letters - 9024
- Fee
- Free
- Description
- Dept. of History presents a lecture featuring Dr. Joshua Sanborn, Professor & Department Head of Department of History, Lafayette College. In this scholarly lecture Dr. Sanborn will address the ways in which military operations and martial law transformed social and political life in Russia, first in the borderlands and then in the empire as a whole. He will suggest that the war produced a crisis of decolonization, complete with manifestations of state failure, social collapse, and, eventually, claims for national independence. Dr. Joshua Sanborn earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. His most recent book, titled Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2014), presents a study that ties together state failure, military violence, and decolonization by chronicling the lives of soldiers, doctors, nurses, politicians and civilians caught up in this global conflict. For more information on this event, feel free to contact the Department of History’s main office at 757/683-3949.
