Japanese diplomat-spy Chiune Sugihara is often hailed as the “Japanese Schindler” for issuing over 2,000 Japanese transit visas to Jews stranded in Lithuania in 1939-40. This talk will explore why Stalin let those Jewish families transit the USSR.
Over four sessions we will work with a beautiful, highly detailed plan of Odesa/Odessa published in 1894. We will study the map’s structure and content and go through the process of pulling it apart (and putting it back together again).
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.
Mythologized “Old Tbilisi” is the centerpiece of an ever-expanding business of heritage tourism that both breaks from and builds upon Soviet narrative precedents.
Marijeta Bozovic argues that contemporary Russian-language poets seek in the legacies of historical avant-gardes an undetonated alternative to both the neoliberal global present and to the discredited institutionalized left of the Communist Party.
