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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Hannah Arendt on Revolution Monday, November 13, 2017 The Russian Revolution was largely absent from Hannah Arendt’s book-length exploration of modern revolutions. This absence follows from Arendt’s understanding of the Russian Revolution as a social revolution that follows the model of the French Revolution, and thus one that failed to offer anything new to our understanding of revolutions. Arendt’s dismissal of the Russian Revolution and also her critique of social revolutions has been controversial, and widely criticized for ignoring the driving force of revolutions to help the poor.In spite of this, Arendt does return to the question of Russian revolution when she writes on the local workers councils (the Soviets). In this, she values the heritage of 1917, only to recognize that councils were soon suppressed by the Bolshevik party.In this discussion between Roger Berkowitz and Artemy Magun, two Arendt scholars will ask whether Arendt was right in seeing the Russian Revolution as derivative from the French Revolution, whether her dismissal of Social Revolutions can be defended, and whether the revolution of her liking is possible in the present historical circumstances. Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 202 Sponsor: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Politics Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program Contact: Oleg Minin. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7238 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://russian.bard.edu/events/