Paul Starobin with the Overseas Press Club

OPC Book Night Paul Starobin will be in conversation with Alan Philps, author of The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War  

The future of Russia lies outside the country Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to the war, by guilt for their country’s deeds, by personal hatred for the Czar-like Putin, and by a vision of a better Russia, shorn of autocracy, the exiles have mounted an organized resistance to Putin’s rule. In Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia, Paul Starobin, a veteran analyst of Russia, travels to places like Armenia and Georgia to meet with exiles and has conversations with prominent figures throughout Europe and America, as he takes measure of this rebellion—and its potential to fix a nation plagued by revanchist imperial dreams.

“Mr. Starobin’s engaging reportage showcases the ingenuity of [the Russian] dissidents” —Wall Street Journal

This is a virtual event