Russia's Worlds: The Second World War And The Postwar Settlement

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Please join us for an event in the Russia's Worlds Lecture Series, a discussion with Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University) and Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Michael David-Fox is a historian of modern Russia and the USSR and a professor at Georgetown University, whose work has ranged from cultural and political history to transnational studies and modernity theory. His current book project, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Nazi and Soviet Rule,'' interprets the levels (local, regional, and central) on which power was wielded in Smolensk oblast in the 1930s and the 1940s, and analyzes the many dimensions of power, aiming squarely at the place where local and regional history meets the grand narrative.

Francine Hirsch is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association (as well as several other awards) for her first book, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (2005). Her second book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II (2020) presents the first complete history of the Nuremberg Trials. Drawing on thousands of documents from the former Soviet archives, it reveals the unexpected contribution of Stalin's Soviet Union to the International Military Tribunal and to the postwar development of international law.

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