| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 22, 2012 | 5:30PM - 7:00PM | External Event, The Media Commons Theatre (Robarts Library, 3d Floor) |
EUGENE HUSKEY is Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian Studies at Stetson University. His publications range across three areas: the Russian executive, Soviet and post-Soviet law, and politics of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. He is the author of almost four dozen academic articles and has written or edited four
books: Russian Lawyers and the Soviet State (Princeton, 1986); Executive Power and Soviet Politics (editor and contributor, Sharpe, 1992); Presidential Power in Russia (Sharpe, 1999); and Russian Bureaucracy and the State: Officialdom from Alexander III to Putin (co-editor and contributor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Professor Huskey is an associate editor of Russian Review and is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Postcommunist and Transition Studies
(Glasgow) and Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization (Washington, DC).
THE INTERIM COUNTRY
Directed by Thomas Lahusen, Gulzat Egemberdieva, and André Loersch.
Narrated by Eugene Huskey. Digital HD 16:9 & archival footage; color & b/w; 50 minutes; Kyrgyz and Russian, English subtitles; Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (Chemodan Films, 2011).
The film chronicles the ever-deepening chaos, into which Kyrgyzstan, a small, land-locked country in Central Asia, plunged after a popular revolt that led to the toppling of president Bakiyev and his clan in April 2010, culminating with large-scale inter-ethnic violence in June 2010.
For a synopsis and trailer:http://www.chemodanfilms.com/the-interim-country/
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