The Holocaust in Historical Perspective
Stephen Bittner, Ph.D.
Department of History, Sonoma State University
Via Zoom
5:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
Professor Stephen V. Bittner will speak on “The Holocaust in Historical Perspective.”
Bittner received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Russian history from the University of Chicago. In addition to being a fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, D.C., Professor Bittner has also lived in Moscow.
He has written two books on Russian History: The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat and Exploring Reform: De-Stalinization in Moscow’s Arbat District,1953-1968. He is also edited the memoirs of Dmitrii Shepilov, a high-ranking official in the Soviet Communist Party who was implicated in an unsuccessful coup: The Kremlin’s Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics under Stalin and Khrushchev.