Life and Death Between Hitler and Stalin: Mass Murder and Memory in Eastern Europe with Dr. Omer Bartov and Dr. Alexandra Richie

World War II On Topic

This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War & Democracy and The Media & Education Center.

Today we are taking a listen to a discussion we hosted during our Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond virtual conference, held in March of 2022.

It was chaired by our own Research Historian, Dr. Jason Dawsey and featured guests Dr. Omer Bartov, the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University, and Dr. Alexandra Richie, Professor at Collegium Civitas.

This discussion goes into how the War ravaged the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The latter then suffered Soviet occupation for the next 50 years. The panel compares and contrasts the complex, often irreconcilable ways in which Eastern Europe and Russia remember the war.

This conversation has extra weight because it took place about one month after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

If you would like to view the original conversation, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/_h83NljG8eY