Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

College Democrats meet weekly to discuss local, national, and international politics and the role that the Democratic Party plays in current events. All are welcome to attend regardless of party affiliation. During election season, College Democrats serves as the hub of volunteer activities on behalf of Democratic candidates from the local to the national level.

College Democrats meet weekly to discuss local, national, and international politics and the role that the Democratic Party plays in current events. All are welcome to attend regardless of party affiliation. During election season, College Democrats serves as the hub of volunteer activities on behalf of Democratic candidates from the local to the national level.

College Democrats meet weekly to discuss local, national, and international politics and the role that the Democratic Party plays in current events. All are welcome to attend regardless of party affiliation. During election season, College Democrats serves as the hub of volunteer activities on behalf of Democratic candidates from the local to the national level.

College Democrats meet weekly to discuss local, national, and international politics and the role that the Democratic Party plays in current events. All are welcome to attend regardless of party affiliation. During election season, College Democrats serves as the hub of volunteer activities on behalf of Democratic candidates from the local to the national level.

College Democrats meet weekly to discuss local, national, and international politics and the role that the Democratic Party plays in current events. All are welcome to attend regardless of party affiliation. During election season, College Democrats serves as the hub of volunteer activities on behalf of Democratic candidates from the local to the national level.

Mark Steinberg, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A welcome address by President Laurie Patton precedes the lecture.

Discussions of the Revolution and its manifestations in Russian music and literature.
Michael Katz (Middlebury College), “Visions of Terror: Boris Savinkov and the Russian
Revolution”
Matthew Bengtson (University of Michigan), “Music and Revolution”
Steven Richmond (Johns Hopkins University), “Soviet Censorship of Literature and the Arts, 1917-
1936”
Discussants: Tim Portice (Middlebury College); Matthew Walker (Middlebury College)

Minkah Makalani (Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin)

Middlebury faculty discuss life under communism.
Kevin Moss, “Enemies of the People”
Sergei Davydov, “1917, 1945, 1968”
Nikolina Dobreva, “Exit Visa”
Roberto Veguez, “Why I Left?”
Ioana Uricaru, “Ideology and Ethics”
Tatiana Smorodinska, “Homo Sovieticus”

Historians discuss the reception of communist ideas in Japan, East Germany and France.
Nicholas Clifford (Middlebury College), “The Chairman’s New Paris Fashions, 1966-1980”
Max Ward (Middlebury College), “Translating the Revolution in Interwar Japan: Japanese Police Manuals on Political Crime”
Andrew Demshuk (American University), “1968 in Leipzig and the Demolition of Belief in Communism.”
Discussant: James Ralph (Middlebury College)