The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies honored the memory of Professor Peter Reddaway, a longtime George Washington University faculty member, with a program devoted to topics he deeply cared about, from human rights and dissidents to the siloviki and Russia’s political system. The event featured two interdisciplinary panels of scholars across generations presenting original research on these themes, followed by a roundtable in which leading academics and practitioners who knew Peter reflected on Russia’s past and present in light of his contributions.
Peter Reddaway was a professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University. Until his retirement in 2004, he taught courses on Soviet and post-Soviet government and politics, on human rights, and on a multidisciplinary introduction to Russia and Eastern Europe. His principal publications include Uncensored Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the USSR (1972), Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry Is Used to Suppress Dissent (with S. Bloch, 1977), Soviet Psychiatric Abuse (with S. Bloch, 1984), Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR (ed. with T. H. Rigby and A. Brown, 1980), The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy (with D. Glinski, 2001), and The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin’s Reform of Federal-Regional Relations (with R. Orttung, vol. 1, 2003, vol. 2 due in 2004). Professor Reddaway passed away in July 2024.
Conference Agenda
Research Panel 1: Siloviki, Nomenklatura, and Kleptocracy
Sergei Zhuk, Ball State University and Woodrow Wilson Center
Maria Snegovaya, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Christopher Walker, National Endowment for Democracy
Research Panel 2: Dissidence in Russia Past and Present
Peter Rollberg, George Washington University
Henry E. Hale and Polina Protozanova, George Washington University
Irina Olimpieva, George Washington University
Roundtable: Peter Reddaway’s Legacy for Understanding Russia
Catherine Dale, United States Institute of Peace
Robert Orttung, George Washington University
Robert Otto, U.S. Department of State
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King’s College London
With recorded presentations by Robert van Voren, Andrei Sakharov Research Center,
and Dmitri Glinski, Russian-speaking Community Council.