CATHERINE MERRIDALE€TRADE;S INAUGURAL LECTURE

21 May 2008

Time: 1:00am
Venue: Skeel Lecture Theatre, People's Palace, Mile End Campus

Catherine Merridale, Professor of Contemporary History, Inaugural LecturePassing Time at the KremlinThe Moscow Kremlin is probably the most potent symbol of Russian nationhood. It seems to embody something eternal about the Russian state, yet its apparent timelessness is an illusion, and the statements that it seems to make have changed constantly since its foundation.