Center for European and Russian Studies Home About Us Events News Multimedia Funding Support Us Home About Us Events News Multimedia Funding Support Us Upcoming Events The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the Decline of Modern Russia Thursday, November 19, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 A talk by journalist Mikhail Fishman on how Russia lost its chance of freedom. View More Events News & Announcements Remembering Professor J. Arch Getty Monday, June 9, 2025 For Hannah Arendt, solidarity was neither universal nor an effective political force Friday, July 25, 2025 After becoming a U.S. citizen, “[Hannah] Arendt idealized the U.S. as a consent-based revival of Rome. She missed the rethinking of the civil rights moment in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s, as well as anticolonial thought after the Second World War,” said David Kim. Repression is working, says Russian journalist Monday, March 18, 2024 Investigative journalist Roman Badanin says many criminal and administrative charges have either been newly introduced, or more aggressively pursued, in the last six years to suppress dissent in Russia. View More News Multimedia The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War A talk by journalist James Verini on the single worst act of mass civilian killing of the war. Webinar: Hungary's Revolution by Election A virtual conversation with Kim Scheppele on the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election and the significance of Péter Magyar's electoral victory over Viktor Orbán. Pathways to WWIII with Stephen Kotkin A talk by Stephen Kotkin, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and John P. Birkelund '52 Professor Emeritus in History, on the origins of WWII and the pathway to WWIII. View More Podcasts Center for European and Russian Studies 11367 Bunche Hall Los Angeles • CA • 90095-1446 Campus Mail Code: 144603 Tel: (310) 825-8030 • Fax: (310) 206-3555 Email: [email protected] Stay Connected Email List Sign Up Please indicate you are not a robot This verification helps prevent automated submissions. 2026 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Privacy & Terms of Use UCLA UCLA International Office UCLA Global UCLA International Institute