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About Lynne Hartnett
I was drawn to Russian history because of my interest in revolutionary figures and revolutionary movements. My first book was a biography of the Russian revolutionary Vera Figner and my second is a study of Russian revolutionary émigrés living in liberal Britian in the decades before the Russian Revolution of 1917. I am drawn to studies of individual historical figures and biographies. For me, historical studies revolve around individuals and assertions of agency. In between my two books I wrote and filmed two courses for The Great Courses: Understanding Russia: A Cultural History and The Great Revolutions of Modern History. When I am not working on my scholarship, I am teaching students at Villanova and runnign the Graduate Program in history at Villanova. I also avidly follow politicsNBN Episodes hosted by Lynne:
November 19, 2021
To Break Russia's Chains
Vladimir Alexandrov
Hosted by
Lynne Hartnett
The latest book by Vladimir Alexandrov is a brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary, Boris Savinkov. Although now largely forgot…