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[PAST EVENT] Lecture: Beholden to Space: Triangulating Stalinism in Contemporary Belarus

September 26, 2013
5pm
Location
Washington Hall, Room 201
241 Jamestown Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
The talk is taking a close look at public debates associated with several historical sites located on the outskirts of the Belarusian capital. One is the Khatynâ₠™ memorial, built near Minsk in the 1960s to commemorate the victims of â₠œthe Great Patriotic War.â₠Another is the Kuropaty gravesite that hides bodies of people executed in 1937-1941. My final site is a new theme park The Stalin Line that was opened in 2005 on the place of a historical fortification structure created shortly before the Second World War. Each site is linked with the Stalinist legacy; each offers its own way of dealing with this past today.
Contact

evprok@wm.edu