1 00. I have just met vlad zubok last evening over dinner and after dinner in which we had a fascinating conversation about khrushchev and kennedy. But two slightly different khrushchevs and kennedys about whom weve been speaking and it was mrs. Jacqueline kennedy and mrs. Khrushchev. We might save that for a later discussion. But i really enjoyed that conversation. Vlad is a professor of international historio London School of economics. Hes an expert on the cold war, and soviet russian history, and particularly intellectual history. Among his books is particularly related to our topic of this conference, a failed empire, the soviet union and the korld war from stalin to gorbachev. And i also noted among his books zhivagos children. I was drawn, of course, to that topic. Jeremi suri is a longtime friend of the Miller Center, were always happy to welcome him back. As we did recently, for an American Forum on his latest book, the impossible presidency which in light of the incumbent mig
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That way he can form opinions. Host how much of these reports are based on unnamed sources, and has that trend increased with this president . All right, i think we will get started. Thank you for coming. Thank you to cspan. I am the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america. I want to welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson, a fellow in our andonal Fellows Program also in our Political Reform Program. His work on the complexity of black voting behavior and Political Attitudes has been eyeopening to me enter medicinally important. He is a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice, an you can see that here. It is occasionally here. We often do things in partnership with the Brennan Center, a wonderful organization. Bit of ainging a nonlegal, beyond legal, scope of andysis to their work continuing hopefully to work in partnership
This panel. We will go to a little bit past 1 00. I have just met vlad zubok last evening over dinner and after dinner in which we had a fascinating conversation about khrushchev and kennedy. But two slightly different khrushchevs and kennedys about whom weve been speaking and it was mrs. Jacqueline kennedy and mrs. Khrushchev. We might save that for a later discussion. But i really enjoyed that conversation. Vlad is a professor of international historio London School of economics. Hes an expert on the cold war, and soviet russian history, and particularly intellectual history. Among his books is particularly related to our topic of this conference, a failed empire, the soviet union and the korld war from stalin to gorbachev. And i also noted among his books zhivagos children. I was drawn, of course, to that topic. Jeremi suri is a longtime friend of the Miller Center, were always happy to welcome him back. As we did recently, for an American Forum on his latest book, the impossible pr