Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 4:30 PM until 9:00 PMUTC -04:00
Salve Regina University100 Ochre Point AveNewport, RI 02840United States
The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev—and Their Lessons for the Putin Era
Taubman won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (W.W. Norton, 2003). He will be speaking about his 2017 book, Gorbachev: His Life and Times (Simon & Schuster), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, receiving many positive reviews; including from Strobe Talbott in the New York Review of Books, who called it “a masterpiece of narrative scholarship.”
Speaker: Dr. William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College
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