23: Russian Literature, Soviet Life – A Conversation with Stanley Ridgley

Stanley Ridgley is an author, educator, and former military intelligence officer. He served for five years in West Berlin, where he received the George S. Patton Award in Leadership. His degrees include a Doctorate and a Masters in international relations from Duke University and an international MBA from Temple University. He’s also studied at Moscow State University and the Institut de Gestion Sociale in Paris. He’s currently working on his fifth book and teaching business and management at Drexel University in Philadelphia.  He joins us to discuss the time he spent living in the Eastern Bloc, Russian life and literature, how artists and writers can leverage greater compensation for their work, his books on business, political ideologies, and social movements, and more.