personality & power book coverDate: Wednesday, November 16

Time: 12 - 1pm ET

In one part of the world, China's historic third-term president, Xi Jinping, is reshaping global geopolitics; and in another, Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is re-imagining how war is fought on social media. It is clear one singular person can transform the course of history.

Indeed, throughout the 20th century, European leaders from Stalin to Mussolini, from Gorbachev to Thatcher, and more, have shifted national and global narratives by sheer force of will. In Personality and Power, British historian Ian Kershaw attempts to understand these rulers and their outsized effect on European—and global—history.

Join Doorstep co-hosts Tatiana Serafin and Nikolas Gvosdev for a virtual event on November 16 at 12pm ET with Kershaw on the lasting influence of these “builders and destroyers.”

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Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is a British historian noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. He is the author of Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe.

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Tatiana Serafin

Tatiana Serafin is a senior fellow at Carnegie Council and co-host of The Doorstep podcast. She is a professor of journalism at Marymount Manhattan College.

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Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow at Carnegie Council and co-host of The Doorstep podcast. He is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College.