JOHN SHELTON CURTISS LECTURES

John Shelton Curtiss (1899-1983) was a professor of Russian history at Duke University for over 20 years (1947-1969) and a founding member of SCSS. During World War II he published one of the first books that challenged the authenticity of the infamous work The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and successfully encouraged other scholars to cosign his work. Among his publications: Church and State in Russia; Russian Army Under Nicholas I; Russia’s Crimean War; and many others.

The 2023 Curtiss lecture will be delivered by Mark Galeotti, Honorary Professor of the UCL (University College London) School of Slavonic and East European Studies and author (most recently) of The Weaponization of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (Yale U.P., 2022). The title of Professor Galeotti’s talk is: “Putin’s Russia and the struggle between autocracy, adhocracy and technocracy.”