John Shelton Curtiss Lectures
John Shelton Curtiss (1899-1983) was a professor of Russian history at Duke University for over 20 years (1947-1969) and a founding member of SCSS. During World War II he published one of the first books that challenged the authenticity of the infamous work The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and successfully encouraged other scholars to cosign his work. Among his publications: Church and State in Russia; Russian Army Under Nicholas I; Russia's Crimean War; and many others.
2023 March 31 Mark Galeotti, University College London, "Putin's War"
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2022 Feb. 25 2020-2021 |
Don Raleigh, UNC-Chapel Hill (emeritus) |
"The Brezhnev you may not Know" CANCELLED DUE TO COVID |
| 2019 March | Kate Brown, University of Maryland | How Bad was Chernobyl |
| 2018 March 23 | Joan Neuberger, University of Texas-Austin | "Something Old, Something New: Going Digital" |
| 2017 April 6 | Rex Wade, George Mason University | "My Career as a Soviet Historian" |
| 2016 March 18 | Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University | "The Ukrainian Crisis in Historical Perspective" |
| 2015 March 6 | Julie Buckler, Harvard University | "Repurposing the Past: Post-Soviet Urban Spaces" |
| 2014 April 11 | Richard Wortman, Columbia University | "Three Charismatic Words: Some Incidental Reflections on Russia's Past" |
| 2013 March 22 | William Brumfield, Tulane University | “Memory, Commemoration, Memorialization: Moscow’s Western Battlefields” |
| 2012 March 30 | Christopher Read, Warwick University | “Where Have All the Workers Gone?” |
| 2011 April 8 | Henry Hale, George Washington University | “Two Decades of Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eurasia: What’s New, What’s Old, and Why” |
| 2010 March 27 | Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University | “History Wars: Memory and Geopolitics in Eastern Europe” |
| 2009 March 27 | Abbott Gleason, Brown University | “Totalitarianism: Russian Historians and the T-word During the Cold War” |
| 2008 March 28 | Ron Suny, University of Michigan | “Breaking Eggs, Making Omelets: Explaining Violence in the Revolution of Lenin and Stalin” |
| 2007 March 23 | Diane Koenker, University of Illinois | “From Social History to the History of Tourism” |
| 2006 March 24 | Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh | “Does the Empire Have No Close? Problems of National Identity” |
| 2005 April 15 | Blair Ruble, Kennan Institute | “Creating Diversity Capital: How Studying Migrants in the Former Soviet Union can Teach us About Ourselves” |
| 2004 March 19 | James Billington, Library of Congress | “The Future of Russia: The Lady or the Tiger?” |
| 2003 March 28 | Esther Kingston-Mann, University of Massachusetts-Boston | “The Romance of Privatization: Russia in Comparative Historical Perspective” |
| 2002 March 15 | Angela Stent, Georgetown University | “The Scholar as Policy Maker” |
| 2001 March 2 | James Collins, Ambassador to Russia | “The Yeltsin Legacy and U.S./Russia Relations” |
| 2000 March 17 | Gabriel Gorodetsky, Tel Aviv University | “Stalin and the Invasion of Russia” |
| 1999 March 26 | Yuri Urbanovich, University of Virginia, | “Russia Today: A Psycho-political Review” |
| 1998 March 20 | Laura Engelstein, Princeton University | “Paradigms, Pathologies, and Other Clues to Russian Spiritual Culture: Some Post-Soviet Thoughts” |
| 1997 March 21 | Brenda Meehan, University of Rochester | “Russian Women and the Radiant Future” |
| 1996 April 12 | Vassily Aksyonov, George Mason University | “Novelist and University” |
| 1995 March 17 | Robert C. Tucker, Princeton University | “Reflections on Soviet History” |
| 1994 March 18 | Murray Feshbach, Georgetown University | “Ecocide Updated: Even Worse Than I Thought” |
| 1993 March 19 | Moshe Lewin, University of Pennsylvania | “The Benefits and Pitfalls of Historical Comparison: Russia and Germany” |
| 1992 March 27 | Tatyana Tolstaya, Russia | “Culture in the New Russia” |
| 1991 March 22 | Evgenii Anisimov, Institute of History, Leningrad | “Progress By Means of Coercion: Russia’s Historical Path?” |
| 1990 | Meeting postponed to spring 1991 | |
| 1989 October 12 | Dorothy Atkinson, Executive Director, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies | “The State of Our Profession” |
| 1988 October 21 | Francis Conte, University of Paris IV, | “The Russian Peasant and his Faith: Orthodoxy, Dvoeverie or Troeverie?” |
| 1987 October 23 | Josef Skvorecky, University of Toronto | “My Neighbor Jaroslav Seifert” |
| 1986 November | William Fletcher, University of Kansas | “Soviet Policy on Religion: The End of an Era” |
| 1985 November 3 | Met jointly with ICSEES (International Committee for Soviet and East European Studies) in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1984 October 12 | S. Frederick Starr, Oberlin College, | “American Public Opinion and the Soviet Press” |
| 1983 October 7 | Edward L. Keenan, Harvard University | “Area Studies” |
| 1982 | Met jointly with AAASS in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1981 October 23 | Edward Wasiolek, University of Chicago |
“Russian Formalism and Contemporary Criticism” |
| 1980 September 19 | Marshall Shulman, Special Advisor on Soviet Affairs to the Secretary of State |
“US-Soviet Relations: What Do We Want?” |
| 1979 October 19 | Ralph T. Fisher, Jr., University of Illinois | “From Another Window” |
| 1978 November 3 | Joseph S. Berliner, Brandeis University |
“Family and Economy in Soviet Russia” |
| 1977 October 21 | Edward Wasiolek, University of Chicago |
“Dostoevsky and Tolstoy: Two Worlds” |
| 1976 October 22 | James Billington, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Politics | |
| 1975 | Hosted AAASS in Atlanta | |
| 1974 October 18 | Frederick Barghoorn, Yale University |
“Dissent and Change in the USSR: Some Reflections” |
| 1973 October 12 | David Joravsky, Northwestern University |
“The Mechanical Spirit, From Chernyshevsky’s Sechenov to Stalin’s Pavlov” |
| 1972 October 13 | Victor Erlich, Yale University |
“How Russian Is Russian Literature?” |
| 1971 October 1 | Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, University of California, Berkeley |
“Some Thoughts on the Government and the Educated Public in Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century” |
| 1970 October 16 | Merle Fainsod, Harvard University | “Conformity and Dissent in the U.S.S.R.” |
| 1969 October 17 | Alex Inkeles, Harvard University | “The Half-Century of the Russian Revolution” |
| 1968 October 25 | Sergius Yakobson, Library of Congress | “Slavica at the Library of Congress” |
| 1967 October 27 | Program does not list a speaker. | |
| 1966 October 21 | George Gibian, Cornell University | “The Old and New in Soviet Russian Literature: 1965-66” |
| 1965 October 22 | Richard V. Burks, Wayne State University | “The Decline of Communism in East Europe” |
| 1964 October 16 | Hans Kohn, University of Texas | “On the Loneliness and Togetherness of the Slavs” |
| 1963 October 11 | Philip E. Mosely, Russian Institute, Columbia University | |
| 1962 October 5 | Geroid T. Robinson, Russian Institute, Columbia University |
