For Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés & the German-Soviet War | a book discussion

Join us as the author and two faculty colleagues discuss his book and answer your questions. 

"The Bolshevik takeover of Russia created an alternative Russia in exile that never laid down its arms. For two decades, expelled White Russians sought ways to retaliate against the Soviet Union and return home. Their irreconcilability was galvanized by a superstructure, the dominant military organization, the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). Eventually, militant anti-Bolshevism led the exiled Russians into alliance with Nazi Germany, despite the latter’s anti-Slavic stance. For Russia with Hitler tells the story of how thousands of White Russian émigrés joined the German invasion of the Soviet Union as soldiers, translators, and civilian workers."
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Author:
Oleg Beyda, Lecturer in Russian History, Melbourne University, Australia

Chair:
Laurie Manchester, Associate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, whose research interests include, among others, Russia, cultural history, ethnic return migration, diaspora studies, and national identity.

Discussant:
Yan Mann, Associate Clinical Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, whose research interests revolve around the relationship between individual and collective memory of the Great Patriotic War, the Stalin cult, censorship, propaganda, and the production of the war’s first official history during Khrushchev’s thaw

Hosted by the ASU Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.