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Book Talk. The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990 by Peter Reddaway

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Join for a talk with Peter Reddaway on his book The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990(Brookings Institution Press). It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union—enough time for the role that the courageous dissidents ultimately contributed to the communist system’s collapse to have been largely forgotten, especially in the West. This…

The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 – Book Launch and Discussion

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

Featuring Olivier Wieviorka (author), École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay; Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University; and Mark Mazower, Columbia University. Olivier Wieviorka talks about his newly translated book, The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 (Columbia University Press, 2019), a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Featuring responses by Robert O. Paxton and Mark Mazower.

The Future of Memory. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, in conversation with Clémence Boulouque

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

Serge and Beate Klarsfeld reflect on their work devoted to tracking down Nazi criminals and restoring the memory of the lives of Jews who died in the Holocaust. They will also discuss the importance of transmitting this work of memory to subsequent generations. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have devoted their lives to bringing fugitive Nazis to justice, a mission they…