
Bertrand Patenaude
Lecturer, Pediatrics - Center for Biomedical Ethics
Bio
Bertrand M. Patenaude teaches history, international relations, and human rights at Stanford, where he is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) and a Lecturer at the Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE). His courses include seminars on United Nations peacekeeping, genocide, famine in the modern world, and humanitarian aid. His first book, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press, 2002), won the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize and was the basis of a PBS documentary film broadcast in 2011. His most recent book was Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, published by HarperCollins in 2009. His previous work, A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives (Stanford University Press, 2006), is a generously illustrated large-format book featuring rare documents, photographs, posters, and artifacts from the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford. Patenaude is the editor of several books, including The Russian Revolution and Stalin and Stalinism. His documentary film credits include associate producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS film Inside the USSR and of the FRONTLINE documentary A Journey to Russia, and story editor of Stalin's Ghost, an NBC News Special Report. He was educated at Boston College and the University of Vienna and received his PhD in History from Stanford in 1987. He taught for eight years (1992-2000) in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where his outstanding performance as a classroom instructor was recognized with the Schieffelin Award for Teaching Excellence for two consecutive years (1998, 1999). Patenaude has lectured throughout Europe for Stanford Travel/Study, Smithsonian Journeys, and Lindblad Expeditions.
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Faculty Fellow, Center for Innovation in Global Health (2016 - Present)
Program Affiliations
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Program in International Relations
Professional Education
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BA, Boston College, Political Science (1977)
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MA, Stanford University, History (1979)
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PhD, Stanford University, History (1987)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Hunger in Europe during World War I and its aftermath.
2020-21 Courses
- Famine in the Modern World
HISTORY 226E, HISTORY 326E (Win) - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
HISTORY 224C, HISTORY 324C, JEWISHST 284C, JEWISHST 384C (Win) - Human Rights and Global Health
PEDS 223 (Spr) - Humanitarian Aid and Politics
PEDS 225 (Aut) - The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War
HISTORY 201C, INTNLREL 140C, INTNLREL 140X (Aut) - United Nations Peacekeeping
INTNLREL 60Q, PEDS 60Q (Win) -
Independent Studies (3)
- Capstone Project: Human Rights Minor
HUMRTS 199 (Win) - Directed Reading in International Relations
INTNLREL 197 (Win) - Senior Thesis
INTNLREL 198 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Capstone Project: Human Rights Minor
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Famine in the Modern World
HISTORY 226E, HISTORY 326E, PEDS 226 (Win) - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
HISTORY 224C, HISTORY 324C, JEWISHST 284C, JEWISHST 384C, PEDS 224 (Win) - Human Rights and Global Health
PEDS 223 (Spr) - Humanitarian Aid and Politics
PEDS 225 (Aut) - The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War
HISTORY 201C, INTNLREL 140C, INTNLREL 140X (Aut) - United Nations Peacekeeping
INTNLREL 60Q (Win)
2018-19 Courses
- Famine in the Modern World
HISTORY 226E, HISTORY 326E, PEDS 226 (Win) - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
HISTORY 224C, HISTORY 324C (Win) - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
INTNLREL 145 (Sum) - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
JEWISHST 284C, JEWISHST 384C, PEDS 224 (Win) - Human Rights and Global Health
PEDS 223 (Spr) - Humanitarian Aid and Politics
PEDS 225 (Aut) - The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War
HISTORY 201C, INTNLREL 140C (Aut) - United Nations Peacekeeping
INTNLREL 60Q (Win)
2017-18 Courses
- Famine in the Modern World
HISTORY 226E, HISTORY 326E, PEDS 226 (Win) - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
HISTORY 224C, HISTORY 324C (Win) - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
INTNLREL 145 (Sum) - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
JEWISHST 284C, JEWISHST 384C, PEDS 224 (Win) - Human Rights and Global Health
PEDS 223 (Win) - Humanitarian Aid and Politics
PEDS 225 (Aut) - The Russian Revolution: Politics, Society, Culture
REES 226, REES 326 (Aut) - The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War
HISTORY 201C, INTNLREL 140C (Aut) - United Nations Peacekeeping
INTNLREL 60Q (Win)
- Famine in the Modern World
All Publications
- Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary HarperCollins. 2009
- A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Press. 2006
- The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 Stanford University Press. 2002
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PEASANTS INTO RUSSIANS, THE UTOPIAN ESSENCE OF WAR-COMMUNISM
RUSSIAN REVIEW
1995; 54 (4): 552-570
View details for Web of Science ID A1995RX93300005