The Russian Marlboro Man: Talk on Vladimir Putin

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Buchanan Hall, #D023

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The Russian and Eurasian Studies Program and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology welcome you to a very exciting talk by MIT Professor of Russian and Soviet History and Kennan Institute Fellow Elizabeth A. Wood: "The Russian Marlboro Man: Vladimir Putin’s Hypermasculinity as a Scenario of Power."  Professor Wood's lecture will take place in our Post-Soviet Life course (SOCI 395) taught by Professor Johanna Bockman. This lecture is open to the public. 

Elizabeth A. Wood is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at MIT. She has published two monographs in Soviet History, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana University Press, 1997) and Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Cornell University Press, 2005). At MIT serves as co-director of the MIT-Russia Program, coordinator of Russian Studies, and adviser to the Russian Language Program, as well as teaching Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russian history and politics. Nationally, she serves as vice-chair of the board of NCEEER. Her current work centers on the performance of power under Vladimir Putin in Russia today. She is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Kennan Institute. 

Sponsored by The Russian and Eurasian Studies Program.

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