Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and the Russian Counter-Revolution

Speaker: 
Peter Baker
 
16 Apr 2007
 
6:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Peter Baker has been a reporter for the Washington Post for eighteen years and currently serves as White House correspondent covering President Bush. He served as the Post's Moscow bureau chief from January 2001 through November 2004, covering Russia and fourteen former Soviet republics. After the 9/11 attacks, he was the first American newspaper journalist into Afghanistan, where he lived with anti-Taliban rebels and spent eight months covering the conflict and new government. He reported from Saddam Hussein's Baghdad and was embedded with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Prior to his foreign assignments, Baker served as the Post's White House correspondent, covering the Clinton Administration, including the Monica Lewinski scandal. He is the author of The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton. His most recent book is Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and the Russian Counter-Revolution[/I], coauthored with fellow Moscow bureau chief Susan B. Glasser. The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program Distinguished Speaker; part of the World Affairs Series; and part of the First Amendment Day Celebration.

This lecture was taped and broadcast as part of Iowa Public Television's Intelligent Talk Television. Watch it online: [url=http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/15841/intelligent_talk_television/ep:106/episodes]click here.[/url] Intelligent Talk Television showcases recent lectures given by guest speakers at colleges, universities, and libraries across Iowa. The collaborative effort between IPTV and participating institutions provides top-notch programs featuring experts on topics ranging from politics to science to economics for broadcast on IPTV’s digital channels and streaming on the ITTV website. ---- This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.