CfP: Soviet Film Studios at War, 1939-1949
International conference “Soviet Film Studios at War, 1939-1949” Moscow, Russian Federation June 12-13, 2014 Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 15, 2013 The organizers are pleased to announce the International Conference on “Soviet Film Studios at War, 1939-1949” which will take place in Moscow between June 12th and 13th 2014. There is a consensus among historians that if is difficult to write about...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Anne Applebaum Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes...