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SUMMARY:Putin’s Use of Russian History - Professor Orlando Figes (Birkbe
 ck\, University of London)
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CONTACT:Dr Stephen Wilford
DESCRIPTION:'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the p
 resent controls the past'\, George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. T
 he maxim is more true for Putin’s Russia than for any other country in t
 he world. This talk will explore how Putin’s mythic reading of Russian h
 istory has informed his ruling ideology.\n\nBook via:\n\nhttps://www.wolfs
 on.cam.ac.uk/about/events/humanities-society-putins-use-russian-history
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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