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October 2006
A public forum highlighting the war in Chechnya, international crises, and other important world affairs will be held October 30 at USM/Lewiston-Auburn. Three noted scholars have been invited to participate in this event:
Dr. Alexei Gusev is a Professor in the Department of History at Moscow State University, where he specializes in the history of Russian labor and socialism. The author of over thirty academic publications and editor of two books (on Leon Trotsky and Victor Serge), Dr. Gusev also is a founder of the Victor Serge Library and the Praxis Education & Research Center in Moscow. He will discuss Russia, world affairs, and modern socialism - with a focus on the war in Chechnya.
Dr. Richard Greeman was a Professor of French at Columbia University and is best known for his translations of Victor Serge’s novels. Leaving academia, he moved to France, where he writes about European affairs, including the recent student and immigrant revolts in France. After the breakup of the USSR in 1991, Dr. Greeman was a founder of the Praxis Center in Moscow, in which he remains an activist.
Dr. Eric Chester was a professor of economics, at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and the Socialist Party candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1996. A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, he serves on its International Solidarity Commission. Dr. Chester is the author of four books, including Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff, and Commies: The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-66 (2001) and True Mission: The Labor Party Question in the United States (2004).
This event, free and open to the public, will be held Monday, October 30 in Room 170 at USM/L-A at 51 Westminster Street in Lewiston. It will begin with a coffee social at 11:00 a.m. and Dr. Gusev’s lecture on “Chechnya: Russia’s Iraq” will follow at 11:30 a.m. A roundtable discussion with the three scholars focused on “Libertarian Socialism as a Global Alternative” will begin at noon followed by an open discussion which will end at approximately 1:00 p.m.
This forum is sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Program at USM/L-A, the International Student Organization of Lewiston-Auburn (ISOLA), the Maine Socialist Alliance, and the Praxis Education & Research Center. For more information, please contact Dr. Barry Rodrigue at USM/L-A: (207) 753-6574 or rodrigue@usm.maine.edu.
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