Join the Carnegie Moscow Center for a panel discussion on the U.S.-Soviet alliance during WW II and its lessons for present-day U.S.-Russia relations.

The U.S.-Soviet alliance during World War II has often been presented in Russia as a paragon of ideal relations between Moscow and Washington: co-equal, realist to the core and successful. Even during the Cold War it was praised as an example of what the two powerful countries could do if only they were united by a compelling common cause. The idea was later revived after 9/11, then with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet these hopes are built on a myth from the past and misreading of the present.

• What does the history of U.S.-Russian relations really teach us?
• What clues to the future does the present hold?

Speakers

Stephen Kotkin, John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University

Andrei Kolesnikov, Senior Fellow and Chair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center