The Forgotten Story of How America Saved Soviet Russia from Ruin: The Great Famine of 1921-1923 Online Lecture by Douglas Smith and Panel Discussion with Sophia Kishkovsky, Nicholas Sluchevsky, and Nadieszda Kizenko Register After decades of Cold War and facing renewed tensions in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 and possibly 2020 elections, [...]

Register 100 Years of the Great Exodus: The White Russian Emigration and Its Meaning Today Presented by Anatol Shmelev The Civil War that started with the October 1917 Russian Revolution essentially ended in European Russia in November 1920, when the Russian Army of General Peter Wrangel evacuated the Crimea and brought about 150,000 Russian civilians [...]

Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture: Creating a National Imagery and Ideology Presented by Jean-Louis Cohen Register Once in a generation, in any field of study, a new book can emerge to change our entire view of the subject. Jean-Louis Cohen’s major new work is in that rare category: it is a sweeping review of the totality [...]

Kolchak and the Allies: the Empire’s End in Siberia Presented by Dr. Anatol Shmelev Register The Eastern front of the Russian Civil War (1917 – 1922) was no less complex and lasted longer than its European counterpart, involving active foreign intervention from Great Britain, France, the USA and Japan, not to mention "legionnaires" from Czechoslovakia, [...]

Kolchak and the Allies: the Empire’s End in Siberia - Part 2 Presented by Anatol Shmelev and Laurie Manchester Register There was so much material to present at our last session on the Eastern Front (March 27) that we did not have hardly any time left to answer the scores of really fascinating questions and [...]

Constantinople: The Emigration’s First Stop on the Journey to Create an Independent “Russia Abroad”  Online Lecture and Panel Discussion on Saturday May 20 Presented by Dr. Anatol Shmelev and Timur Saitov One hundred years ago, our ancestors in the First Wave of Russian emigration left Russian territory, fleeing the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War that [...]