Ronald Grigor Suny, September 27
The Russian History Seminar will hold its next meeting of the 2013-2014 academic year on Friday, September 27 at 5 pm in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus. We will discuss the following paper by Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan), "The Making of a Bolshevik: Stalin from Koba to Commissar."
Ronald Grigor Suny is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History and Director of the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies at the University of Michigan, and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995), and the founder and director of the Armenian Studies Program there.
Suny’s fields include Russian/Soviet, Armenian, and Caucasian history; the history and theory of nationalism and empire; and the history of ethnic conflict and genocide. He is the author of seven scholarly books, including The Baku Commune, 1917-1918 (Princeton University Press, 1972); The Making of the Georgian Nation (Indiana University Press, 1988, 1994); Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History (Indiana University Press, 1993); The Revenge of the Past (Stanford University Press, 1993); and The Soviet Experiment (Oxford University Press, 1998). He is also the editor of many collections of essays, including Making Workers Soviet (Cornell University Press, 1994); A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford University Press, 2001); and A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Suny was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for the year 2006; he is the 2013 recipient of the ASEEES award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. You can find his Wikipedia page here.