The Holocaust in Historical Perspective

Stephen Bittner, Ph.D.
Department of History, Sonoma State University

Warren Auditorium of Ives Hall on the SSU campus
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Professor Stephen Bittner, Ph.D., Sonoma State University

Please join us on Tuesday, January 21st for the first lecture in the 2020 series on the Holocaust and Genocide at Sonoma State University from 4-5:50 p.m. in Warren Auditorium of Ives Hall on the SSU campus.  Sonoma State History Professor Stephen V. Bittner will speak on “The Holocaust in Historical Perspective.”

Professor Bittner received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 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.