Professor Stephen Bittner will speak about the emergence of Ukrainian national identity and the way Ukraine's bloody experience with Nazism and Stalinsim has affected relations with Putin's Russia

Stephen Bittner is Professor of History at Sonoma State University. His most recent book is titled White and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar.

Photo: "We Died So That Ukraine Could Live," cemetery near Lviv, western Ukraine