EVENT POSTPONEMENT


**Please note that the following event has been postponed until further notice**

The Kennan Institute and the speaker apologize for any inconvenience. For questions, please contact Joseph Dresen at 202-691-4245 or (joseph.dresen@wilsoncenter.org).

Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University

Historian Timothy Snyder offers an indelible portrait of Wilhelm Von Habsburg, an aristocrat whose life personifies the wrenching upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, as the rule of empire gave way to the new politics of nationalism. Coming of age during the First World War, Wilhelm repudiated his family to fight alongside Ukrainian peasants in hopes that he would become their king. When this dream collapsed he became, by turns, an ally of German imperialists, a notorious French lover, an angry Austrian monarchist, a calm opponent of Hitler, and a British spy against Stalin. Played out in Europe's glittering capitals and bloody battlefields, in extravagant ski resorts and dank prison cells, The Red Prince captures an extraordinary moment in the history of Europe, in which the old order of the past was giving way to an undefined future-and in which everything, including identity itself, seemed up for grabs.