Organized by Hoover research fellow Paul Gregory, the Hoover Institution's Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes brings together scholars from across the globe to research and discuss the history and development of authoritarian regimes using materials from the Hoover Institution Archives. The workshop promotes the comparative study of modes of personal dictatorship, of institutions of coercion and repression, and of the economic and social consequences of totalitarian rule.

On July 29 Robert Service, keynote speaker for the 2015 Hoover Institution Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes, delivered a lecture entitled “Looking at Both Sides: Why Did the Cold War End as It Did?” Service is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of Saint Anthony’s College, Oxford.