Martin Miller, "Under Western Eyes: Transatlantic Documentary Photography in the Soviet Union, 1928-1968"

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Talk description:

My book is an effort to enrich our knowledge of Soviet society during and after the Stalin era by using images made by Western documentary photographers as historical evidence, and to foreground aspects of the quotidian intimacy of Soviet society behind the Cold War divide.

Speaker bio:

Martin Miller is professor in the Department of History and in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke.

His previous books include:
-Kropotkin (a scholarly biography of the Russian anarchist theoretician and activist), U Chicago Press.
-The Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1825-1870 (a prosopographic study of the first generation of Russian political exiles who fled Imperial Russia to Western Europe), Johns Hopkins UP
- Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, Yale UP
-The Origins of Modern Terrorism: State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence, Cambridge UP