Ideas Uncorked: Lyuba's Hope | Hoover Institution
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TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2025 |
5:00 - 7:30 PM ET
RECEPTION & SPEAKING PROGRAM FOLLOWED BY FILM SCREENING
featuring
Paul Gregory
| Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Lyubov Sobol | Human Rights Activist
Marianna Yarovskaya | Film Producer and Director
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ABOUT
Paul Gregory
is Cullen Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, a research fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, and emeritus chair of the International Advisory Board of the Kiev School of Economics.
Gregory is the author or coauthor of twelve books and more than one hundred articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography. Such as;
Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives
(Hoover Institution Press, 2013),
Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina
(Hoover Institution Press, 2010),
Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives
(Hoover Institution Press, 2008),
Terror by Quota
(Yale, 2009), and
The Political Economy of Stalinism
(Cambridge, 2004), for which he received the Hewett Prize, awarded to works on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe. He co-edited
The Lost Transcripts of the Politburo
(Yale, 2008). His archival work is summarized in
Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin’s Archive
(
Journal of Economic Literature).
As a producer, Gregory worked with director Marianna Yarovskaya on the documentary film
Women of the Gulag
, which was short-listed for the 2019 Academy Awards.
Marianna
Yarovskaya
is an American-Russian documentary filmmaker. Yarovskaya grew up in Moscow, Russia in a family of a theater directors, playwrights, and a rocket scientist.
Her first documentary film,
Undesirables
(1998), won the 2001 Student Academy Award (Student Oscar). Since then, she has worked for dozens of programs for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, NASA, and Netflix as a producer, executive producer, and senior editor. She has credits on over 80 documentary films and TV programs, including researcher credits on two Academy Award-winning films and one Academy nominated feature film. In 2021, she was one of the producers on the Netflix series,
How to Become a Tyrant
.
Marianna holds an MA from the Moscow State University's School of Journalism, and an MFA in Film/TV Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She has been a member of the Producers Guild of America since 2011, and an Academy Gold member since 2017.
Lyubov
Sobol
is a human rights activist from Russia. A staunch advocate for the democratization of Russia, she previously served as a lawyer for Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and played a role in several significant investigations in Russia, including those against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the deceased owner of the private military company Wagner.
In addition to her legal pursuits, Sobol has a strong online presence: she operates a YouTube channel with over 600,000 subscribers, where she covers topics including corruption in Putin’s regime, the war in Ukraine, and other current events. Her efforts have been recognized with the Sergei Magnitsky Award, honoring her contributions to the fight for democracy in Russia. In 2019, the BBC included her in the Leadership category on its list of 100 Inspiring and Influential Women from around the world.
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