Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University in the Department of History. She is interested in the social and institutional history of informing to the Soviet political police between 1927 and 1965.

My Events:

Archival Developments in Eastern Europe since February 2022: Perspectives from Archivists and Researchers

Tuesday, November 28, 2023
3 to 4:30pm EST

In person

The shift in the research landscape on Russian and Eastern European history since February 2022 has prompted (or speeded up) the work of the archives of former Soviet states on making their collections maximally accessible to researchers and on pushing forward the declassification of documents from the Soviet period. This roundtable will address recent changes in archival work in Eastern Europe, including the declassification of former KGB/ MVD/ Procuracy documents, the process of digitization of files; it will also examine access to various archives from the perspective of the researcher. The discussion will focus primarily on the archives of Moldova, Ukraine, and the Baltic states.

Serhii Plokhii

Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute , Harvard University

Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz

Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

Igor Cașu

Director of the National Agency for Archives and a Lecturer at the State University of Moldova

Terry Martin

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University

Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Vilnius, Lithuania

Informers, Special Agents, and Other Collaborators With the MGB/KGB in the Lithuanian SSR, 1944-1991

Monday, November 13, 2023
10am to 12pm EST

Online

Five researchers from the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania and other international research institutions investigate the political police management of special agents and informers with the MGB/KGB, as well as the identities and experiences of these collaborators.

Recording Available