The Annual Alexander Dallin Lecture was founded in 1998 to honor Professor of History and Political Science Alexander Dallin, a founder of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford and CREEES director, 1985-89 ad 1992-94.
"The Unstable Politics of Russian Diarchy: Some Preliminary Thoughts"
Peter Reddaway - Professor Emeritus of Political Science and
International Affairs, George Washington University
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm>
Fisher Auditorium, Arrillaga Alumni Center
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Professor Reddaway received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Cambridge University and did graduate work at Harvard and Moscow Universities and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and taught at George Washington University before his retirement in 2004. His principal publications include Uncensored Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the USSR (1972), Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry is Used to Suppress Dissent (with S. Bloch, 1977), Soviet Psychiatric Abuse (with S. Bloch, 1984), Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR (ed. with T.H. Rigby and A. Brown, 1980), The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy (with D.Glinski, 2001), and The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional Relations (with R. Orttung, vol. 1, 2003, vol. 2 due in 2004). Reddaway contributes articles and interviews to the international media, and provides consultation for government bodies concerned with foreign affairs.
“Russia before the Parliamentary and Presidential Election: Towards a New Authoritarian Regime"
Lev Gudkov, Levada Center Moscow

“Perspectives on Boris Yeltsin in History”
Tim Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and Director of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
"Gorbachev Revisited"
Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Oxford University

"Russia's Foreign Policy after the Ukrainian Revolution"
Dmitri Trenin, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center
"Russia after the Presidential Election "
Yuri Levada, Director Levada Center (Formerly VTsIOM-A)
"New War, New Allies: If the US Can't Go It Alone, Whom Should It Go With?"
The Honorable Stephen Sestanovich,
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Former US Ambassador at Large for the New Independent States: Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center
"Russia and the World after America's Autumn of Tears "
Robert Legvold, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
"Vladimir Putin: Opportunities and Constraints"
Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center