# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Maria Lipman & Benjamin Nathans on "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 12:30 pm – Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 01:45 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a conversation on Benjamin Nathans' book "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement"About this EventRoberta Buffett Visiting Professor  (Northwestern University) and Alan Charles Kors Professor of History  (University of Pennsylvania) will discuss Nathans' new Pulitzer Prize-winning book, .The book tells the story of dissent in the USSR from Stalin's death to the collapse of communism, exploring the idea and practice of rights and the rule of law in the setting of “mature socialism.” Rather than treat Soviet dissidents as avatars of Western liberalism, or take their invocation of rights and legal norms as natural, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause investigates how, as products themselves of the Soviet order, dissidents arrived at a conception of law and human personality so at odds with official norms. Understanding this process—how orthodoxies contain the seeds of their own heresies, and how dissidents promoted the containment of Soviet power from within—promises to illuminate the broader problem of how citizens of authoritarian societies conceive and act on options for political engagement.Cosponsored by Northwestern University's Department of History and Chabraja Center for Historical Studies.Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.Agenda?: 12:15 PMLunch begins?: 12:30 PMLecture begins
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/evanston/maria-lipman-and-benjamin-nathans-on-to-the-success-of-our-hopeless-cause/100001716213493759
- **Event Categories**: nonprofit
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Evanston
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 720 University Pl
- **lat**: 42.0510786
- **long**: -87.68072699999999
- **full address**: 720 University Pl, 720 University Place, Evanston, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Maria Lipman & Benjamin Nathans on "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause" being held?
  - **A:** Maria Lipman & Benjamin Nathans on "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause" takes place on Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 12:30 pm to Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 01:45 pm at 720 University Pl, 720 University Place, Evanston, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Maria Lipman & Benjamin Nathans on "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause"?
  - **A:** Maria Lipman & Benjamin Nathans on "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause" is organized by Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.

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