The Progressive Commentary Hour 6.17.25

Professor Vladimir Brovkin is a Russian‑born American historian specializing in Soviet and post‑Soviet Russian history. He was born in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) and completed his undergraduate studies at St. Petersburg University. He later pursued a master’s degree at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and earned his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. Before moving to the US in the mid 1970s, he taught at Ural University in Russia and later was an associate professor of Soviet History at Harvard University's Russian Research Center.  Prof Brovkin has specialized in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the various political parties, social movements, institutions and ideas that have shaped modern Russia. He has published several rigorously archived works, and last year released his important book From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its Identity: 1913–2023, which spans over a century of Russian history and analyzes changing models of Russia's national identity. Prof.  Brovkin also speaks and writes about Western since 1991, the impact of NATO expansion on Russian‑Western relations, and the Ukraine conflict. He also hosts a Youtube channel -- Issues of Contemporary Politics with Dr. Brovkin.