Bertrand Patenaude in Slovenia and Croatia

Bert Patenaude, MA ’79, PhD ’87, teaches history and international relations at Stanford, where he is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. His first book, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press, 2002), won the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize and was made into a documentary film for the award-winning PBS history series American Experience. His 2009 book, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (Harper), was serialized for radio by the BBC.

During our program, Bert will discuss the history of Croatia and the Adriatic between Byzantium and Venice (4th to 15th centuries), Habsburg rule in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia (16th to 20th centuries), the former Yugoslavia, and the contested legacy of Nikola Tesla.

• Lecturer, history and international relations, Stanford University, since 1991

• Research fellow, Hoover Institution, since 1992

• Author, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (HarperCollins, 2009)

• Book review contributor, The Wall Street Journal

• BA ’77, political science, Boston College

• MA ’79 and PhD ’87, history—both Stanford University