have a great lineup at harvard bookstore events over the next couple of months, which includes alan lightman, some of the powers and new york times vessel he hoffman. more details and information on the upcoming events, please visit our calendar at harvard.com/event and sign up for weekly e-mails. we are very pleased to have c-span book to be to us here today. when asking q&a please know you'll be recorded and wait a moment for the microphone to come to you before asking questions. after tonight q&a we will have a book signing at this table. copies for sale at the register in the next room. i would like to take a moment to say thank you, today is the first day you can get the copy of the book. congratulations. and finally. [applause] please silence your cell phones for the talk. knowing very pleased to introduce tonight speakers, duncan white is a history and literature professor in the assistant director of studies for the modern world at harvard university. his previous book, heico edited call transitional. it is brought into the to daily telegraph road he's a historian of the soviet union

have a great lineup over the next couple of months which includes national book award finalist alan lightman pulitzer prize winner samantha power and new york times best-selling novelist alice hoffman. for more details and information on these and many upcoming events please visit the events calendar@harvard.com /events and sign up for weekly email newsletter. after tonight's q&a will have a book signing at this table. the client will form toward the left and book around the corner because there's a lot of you. we have a couple copies of his previous book for sale to register and a lot of copies of his new book which she will have to fight for the register as well. i like to take a moment to say thanks for buying books here at the harvard bookstore. you purchase of the series and ensure the future of independent bookstore, thank you. finally, a quick reminder to silence your cell phones before the talk. now i'm very pleased to introduce tonight speaker, ronald roz bob, professor in arts and humanities and professor of french, european and architectural studies in amherst college. his previou