Meeting with historian Yuriy Felshtinskiy 7 November 2023

Yuriy Felshtinskiy is an American historian, publicist, political scientist, specializing in the modern history of Russia.

In 1978 he emigrated to the United States, where he received a PhD in history. In 1993, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, becoming the first foreign citizen to be awarded a Doctor of Science degree in Russia. Author of a number of monographs on Soviet history, including: "The Collapse of the World Revolution” (London, 1991; Moscow, 1992, 2014); "Leaders in Law” (Moscow, 1999, 2008) and a 4-volume biography of L. D. Trotsky.

Co-author of the books "The FSB Blows Up Russia,” written together with Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed in London in 2006, "The Corporation: Russia and the FSB in the Time of President Putin,” "From Red Terror to Mafia State” (2022).

At the meeting we will discuss the questions raised in the titles of Yu. Felshtinskiy’s books - who is blowing up Russia today, the role of the special services in the history of Russia, the path from a communist utopia to a mafia state, and what scenarios for the future of Russia are seen by a specialist in its past.

It is symbolic that the meeting will take place on November 7!