Professor Arch Getty  MORE »
Arch Getty specializes in the Stalin period and the history of the Soviet Communist Party. He has published five books and more than 50 articles on the Stalin period. He was the first to use formerly secret police archives to publish exact data on the number of Stalin's victims. Each year, Getty works in the political archives of the former Soviet Communist Party in Moscow. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, visiting scholar at the Sorbonne and visiting professor at Utrecht University. He is founder and director of Praxis International, which facilitates research travel to and archival access in Russia.

About the Trip

Three hundred years ago, Peter the Great transformed a swampy wilderness into a majestic and modern capital worthy of a European power. Professor Arch Getty joins us as we trace Peter's footsteps through history. Explore Moscow's Red Square and Armory Museum, then board the MS Leonid Krasin and sail the legendary Volga, Neva and Svir rivers. Visit historic Uglich, see beautiful monasteries in Yaroslavl and Goritsy, and enjoy the outdoor museum of traditional Russian life on Kizhi Island. Spend two days discovering the sites of St. Petersburg, from its magnificent royal palaces to the astounding collections at the Hermitage Museum.

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