Wednesday 1 June, 6.30pm
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
UCL Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
FREE but registration required
Please contact Rachel Quarmby at r.quarmby(at)ssees.ucl.ac.uk or telephone 0207 679 8752.
Together, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ruled most of the Eurasian landmass between 1933 and 1944. Beyond the bloodlands, the regimes of Hitler and Stalin together killed no more than three million civilians in these years. However, in the bloodlands todays Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and the eastern Baltic coast the Nazi and Soviet regimes starved, shot and gassed to death fourteen million people, taking the total death toll to seventeen million souls. Despite the centrality of mass killings to our moral discourse and historical memory, no book has ever before discussed both German and Soviet mass killing together, and no book treats in depth all of the major killing policies of both dictators.
Timothy Snyder is Professor of History at Yale University and author of ‘The Reconstruction of Nations’, ‘Sketches from a Secret War’ and ‘The Red Prince’.
Prof Simon Dixon, who holds the Sir Bernard Pares Chair of History at SSEES, will chair the discussion following the lecture.
Organised by the Polish Cultural Institute in London, Random House and UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
