*Location: CGIS South S-050*

About Will: Will is a newly-minted PhD from the University of Cambridge (2012) as well as a JD Student at Yale. He is currently a Graduate Research Associate at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard.

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/will_smiley.htm

Location: Robinson Lower Library

Speaker Bio: Prof. Gorlizki's research "centres on Russia and the Soviet Union, it touches on themes that have a broader application. These include: the nature of dictatorship, the emergence of legal orders, the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats, and the role of interpersonal trust in political systems." Over the last three years he has been involved in two major research projects:

• Networks and Hierarchies in the Soviet Provinces
  The chief purpose of...

Location: Robinson lower library
Speaker Bio: David Brandenberger has written on Stalin-era propaganda, ideology and nationalism in journals like Russian Review, Kritika, Nationality Papers, Europe-Asia Studies, Jahrbuecher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas and Voprosy istorii. His first book, National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956 (Harvard, 2002), focuses on the USSR's reliance on russocentric mobilizational propaganda and the effect that this pragmatic use of historical heroes,...