Between Stalin and Hitler. MASS MURDER IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. Columbia University, April 4, 2011

The East Central European Center and
the Harriman Institute at Columbia University,
together with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York

present:

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

BETWEEN STALIN AND HITLER:
MASS MURDER IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

with PROF. TIMOTHY SNYDER, author of
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Snyder is perhaps the most talented younger historian of modern Europe working today. Astonishingly prolific, he grounds his work in authoritative mastery of the facts, mining tomes of information in multiple languages and brilliantly synthesizing his findings.
- Samuel Moyn, The Nation

Prof. Timothy Snyder (Yale Univ.), will discuss his bestselling new work, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin at Columbia University with a panel of very distinguished historians - Professors Istvan Deak (Columbia Univ.), Pawel Machcewicz (Warsaw Univ., Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences), and Yaroslav Hrytsak (L'viv National Ivan Franko Univ.).

The panel will be moderated by Prof. John Micgiel, Director of the East Central European Center at Columbia University.

In Bloodlands Snyder brings together personal stories and new research to present the horror of mass murder in the region caught between Hitler and Stalin in a way that demands a reassessment of our understanding of the history of the twentieth century. The image of Nazi concentration camps as "death factories" seems almost antiseptic by comparison to brutal accounts of mass executions where methods were much more primitive, up-close, and personal, or programs of mass starvation that have not been fully appreciated outside the region that Snyder calls "the Bloodlands."

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