Join us in celebrating the recent release of The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse (Cornell University Press) by Joseph Kellner. For his research, Dr. Kellner has been awarded UGA's Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar Award, among other distinctions. His book, The Spirit of Socialism, is a cultural history of the collapse of the USSR, focused on the highly visible flourishing of radical spiritual movements and worldviews that emerged in Soviet cities at that time. The book is comprised of four case studies, each examining problems that Soviet people faced, and the beliefs—esoteric or dogmatic, foreign or homespun, utopian or apocalyptic—that offered solutions. These histories speak to the nature of Soviet ideology, exposed as it unraveled, and to the common features of societies undergoing crisis.

Members of the university community are welcome to attend

Refreshments.

Presented by the Department of History, with support from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.