The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag
Uncommon Knowledge
English - August 24, 2022 01:03 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsPolitics News History business health entrepreneurship leadership news politics interview comedy culture books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dartmouth College anthropology professor Sergei Kan was born in the Soviet Union just a few months after the death of Stalin. He came to the United States in 1974 at the age of 21 and received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses at Dartmouth on the native peoples of Alaska, on the Jewish diaspora, and on Russia.
Next year—the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Gulag Archipelago—Dr. Kan will teach a course titled "Red Terror: The History and Culture of the Stalin Labor Camps." Dr. Kan has been kind enough to offer our viewers a preview of the seminar in advance.
Recorded on April 15, 2022, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.