“Bounced Czechs and Forged Alliances”: The Armaments Business and the Road to World War II, a Public Lecture with Jonathan Grant, Ph.D.

Join the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and Fordham University Press for this annual Veterans Day event featuring a lecture on the international armaments business in Eastern Europe leading up to World War II. Jonathan Grant, Ph.D., is a professor of history at Florida State University and a specialist in modern Russian history. He has authored Between Depression and Disarmament: The International Armaments Business, 1919–1939 (2018); Rulers, Guns, and Money (2007); and Big Business in Russia: The History of the Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868–1917 (1999).

This lecture will focus on the business effects of disarmament discussions in Easter Europe prior to World War II and the connections between business, arms trade, disarmament, and re-armament.

There will be a reception after the lecture.