GGR will hold a Talk Session which will be held as below:

■Title: The role of Ideology in Soviet policy during the Cold War

■ Speaker: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara)

■Date: October 13, 2025 (Monday)

■Time: 15:15 -17:00

■Place: Kunitachi Campus, Hitotsubashi University (The venue will be notified upon pre-registration)

■Language: English

■Pre-registration: https://forms.gle/RGChXHUhdhf1DxGe8

About the speaker:

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is professor emeritus of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His major publications include: The February Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981); The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations, 2 vols, (Berkeley: International and Area Studies Publication, University of California at Berkeley, 1998); Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and Japan’s Surrender in the Pacific War (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005; The Februasry Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd: The End of Tsarism and the Birth of Dual Power (Leiden: Brill, 1917), Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017); and The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs (New York: Basic Books, 2024). Racing the Enemy has been translated into Japanese, French, Korean, and Russian, most recently, 『暗闘』（みすず書房、2003年）. He edited numerous books, including, The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Stanford University Press, 2011).

We are looking forward to your participation.
Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR)