Thursday, May 18, 2017 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm
This offering is at capacity. On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. By the year 2000, Putin was elected to President and has been ruling Russia ever since.Aaron Retish, History Professor at Wayne State University will discuss the Soviet Union, its collapse and the rise of Putin’s Russia. How has Putin’s political ideology and world view shaped the Russian Federation of today? What will the Russian relationship with the US and the led Western world look like in the next decade(s)?
Location:
Birmingham Next