Russia, America, and the spectre of political influence
Nov 23, 2020
Dr. Glennys Young of the University of Washington
Russia, America, and the spectre of political influence
Professor Glennys Young will discuss with Rotarians her perspective on recent world events in the context of the development of today’s Russia from its predecessor Soviet Union. Rotarians will be treated to an usual opportunity to view the results of our recent elections and political turmoil through the lens of a political, social, economic historian.
Professor Young is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, chair of the University of Washington Department of History, and professor of Russian studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She expresses particular interest in the USSR's involvement in transnational movements and processes, whether political, social, cultural, or economic, and research in the history of Communism and world history. She is an author, publishing Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century: A Global History through Sources (Oxford University Press, 2011), and soon-to-be-released Displaced: From the Soviet Union to Franco’s Spain in the Cold War, as well as several articles on a number of topics in Soviet social and political history. Prof. Young received her bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania, and her masters and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.